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The Introduction to Web 3.0 (NFT, DeFi, DAO, DApp, Cryptocurrency, GameFi, etc)
Web 3.0 is actually a derivative of the current Internet’s underlying Protocol “World Wide Web”. The Internet has gone through the Web 1.0 era, and currently in the Web 2.0 era, and Web 3.0 is what we expect from the next-generation Internet, which is the semantic web(machines can read any data and websites can provide information based on data). The most important is that the ownership of data on the Internet will be decentralized.
Web 3.0 is a sufficiently disruptive technological revolution. Why do I say that? It is because there are entertainment, search, e-commerce, social networking, finance, banking and etc. Almost every application you can figure out, they are launching out Web 3.0 entrepreneurial projects. The selling points of Web 3.0 are anti-monopoly, anti-platform, and user-owned.
From the Internet of Information to the Internet of Value
In order to better understand Web 3.0, please review the development history of the Internet over the past few decades, from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0.
Web 1.0
In 1989, Tim Bernes-Lee wrote a paper titled “Information Management: A Proposal” which described the “network” as a network of information systems interconnected by hypertext links. This is Web 1.0. Web 1.0 is a read-only network built on open, decentralized, and community-governed protocols.
During the Web 1.0 era, companies such as Netscape, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Java, AOL…
