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Web 3.0 en · PROPN

Etymology

As a progression from Web 2.0.

Meanings

1. (Internet, neologism) The predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content and decentralized protocols.
   • Even though Web 2.0 has not been fully implemented, there are talks of Web 3.0 and what the future may hold. Many predict it will be the Semantic Web where users will be able to request information rather than have to search for it. 2008, P. Candace Deans, Social Software and Web 2.0 Technology Trends, →ISBN, page 55:
   • Some people already think about what is happening with the Web 3.0, the semantic web, the Internet of things, for instance. 2009, Sigrid Baringhorst, Political Campaigning on the Web:
   • Web 3.0 does not yet exist, but it shines forth in online cooperation. […] Web 3.0 technologies like wikis are not only communicative, but also cooperative. 2007, Christian Fuchs, Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:
   • As the year unfolds, pay attention to the people who are talking about a new, decentralised internet – AKA Web 3.0 – and the possibility of data being returned to the control of the people who generate it. 2019 January 7, John Harris, “Together we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how”, in The Guardian:
   • Stepping back to the Web topics, what are your thoughts on Web 3.0, the Semantic Web? 2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
   • Web 3.0 refers to the third stage in the evolution of the Web that now has significant extension in the types of data, people, and interactions, along with heterogeneity and scale. 2013, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Semantics Empowered Web 3.0 […] , Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:
   • Although not the Semantic Web envisioned by Berners-Lee, Web 3.0 is in many ways a return to his original web, where “no permission is needed from a central authority to post anything …^([sic]) there is no central controlling node, and so no single point of failure …^([sic]) and no “kill switch”! 2020 January 6, Charles Silver, “Council Post: What Is Web 3.0?”, in Forbes, retrieved 22 Apr 2021:

Forms

Coordinates

Web 2.0 · Web 1.0

Relateds

Semantic Web

Translations (4)

cmn Web 3.0 (Web sān diǎn líng) (third generation of the WWW) · yue Web 3.0 (wep¹ saam¹ dim² ling⁴) (third generation of the WWW) · de Web 3.0 (third generation of the WWW) · fi Web 3.0 (third generation of the WWW)