Web 3, also known as Web 3.0, has become a bit of a buzz word over the last few months, largely among those interested in cryptocurrency as it will bring a new level to the internet that promotes decentralized protocols.
The first version of the Internet, known as Web 1, arrived in the late 1990s and was essentially a collection of links and homepages. Websites weren’t particularly interactive and you couldn’t do much apart from read things and publish basic content for others to read.
Web 2 came next, which some people call the ‘read/write’ version of the internet, in reference to a computer code that lets you both open and edit files rather than just view them. This version of the Internet allowed people to not only consume content, but create their own and publish it on blogs, later, the emergence of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram took content sharing to new heights.
