WEBVTT - TechStuff Tidbits: What are Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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<v Speaker 1>Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>And how the tech are you? You You know? Pretty soon

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<v Speaker 1>I planned to do an episode about the concept of

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<v Speaker 1>Web three or Web three point oh, and those terms

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<v Speaker 1>have a lot of buzz around them. Um, there's also

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<v Speaker 1>some competing definitions, which is fun for something that's kind

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<v Speaker 1>of still in the process of coalescing, but that might

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<v Speaker 1>make you wonder, you know, what the heck was Web

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<v Speaker 1>two point oh or even Web one point oh. And

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<v Speaker 1>I have covered this on very old episodes of tech Stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>but I thought it would be good to do it

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<v Speaker 1>tidbits episode on the topic. So here's tech Stuff tidbits.

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<v Speaker 1>Web one and Web two. And first of all, there

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<v Speaker 1>really was no Web one point oh, at least not formally,

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<v Speaker 1>and in fact you could argue the same for Web

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<v Speaker 1>two point oh. Really, during the earliest days of the Web,

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<v Speaker 1>there was no one there to say this is version

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<v Speaker 1>one point oh, Like you had version numbers for the

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<v Speaker 1>various protocols, but the Web itself we did not designate

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<v Speaker 1>as being Web one. It was just you know, the web.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just a thing, kind of like how during

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<v Speaker 1>the First World War no one called it World War

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<v Speaker 1>One because that would be cynical and pessimistic. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it also would have been accurate. But at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>the more hopeful humans out there were kind of crossing

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<v Speaker 1>their fingers that there wouldn't be another, you know, war

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<v Speaker 1>to end all wars, like another global conflict similar to

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<v Speaker 1>World War One. Sadly there was, but you know, at

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<v Speaker 1>the time they weren't thinking that. So in the beginning,

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<v Speaker 1>it was just the web, you know, just websites with

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<v Speaker 1>web pages. The first website was launched on August six,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was in fact a website about the Worldwide

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<v Speaker 1>Web project itself from Tim Berner's lead, the person who

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<v Speaker 1>invented the web effectively um and it listed instructions on

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<v Speaker 1>how to create web pages and to use hypertext to

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<v Speaker 1>link documents, that is, pages together, and that would allow

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<v Speaker 1>visitors to navigate from one page to another. The term

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<v Speaker 1>web two point oh wouldn't emerge until nearly a decade

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<v Speaker 1>later in and it was a writer named Darcy de

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<v Speaker 1>Nucci who coined the term in a paper titled Fragmented

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<v Speaker 1>Future or an article titled Fragmented Future. By the way,

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<v Speaker 1>you can find that article online. You can read it

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<v Speaker 1>for free, and I highly recommend you do it. It's

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's a historical document at this point, but

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's incredible to see how much Darcy was predicting

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<v Speaker 1>that actually became a thing. Darcy's thesis was that the

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<v Speaker 1>web at that stage in was about to go through

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<v Speaker 1>a truly transformational evolution um and in fact was already

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<v Speaker 1>in the process of doing so. And let's let's cast

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<v Speaker 1>our minds back to the early web. And you may

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<v Speaker 1>owe my Drew gees not remember what that was like.

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<v Speaker 1>Things changing so scoring now and people think quick to forget,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know, back in the early early days of

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<v Speaker 1>the web, web pages were static. Like you would set

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<v Speaker 1>out to build a web page, it would probably look

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<v Speaker 1>a bit like a page in a book, and once

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<v Speaker 1>you were done, chances were that's just how it was

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<v Speaker 1>going to be until either you know, whatever machine was

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<v Speaker 1>hosting the file crashed and the file was no longer available,

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<v Speaker 1>or you know, you deleted it to put something else

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<v Speaker 1>up or whatever. So visiting the web was a lot

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<v Speaker 1>like flipping through the pages of a book, or you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you might want to be more accurate, say like the

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<v Speaker 1>pages in a series of magazines that had all been

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<v Speaker 1>stapled together and shuffled up, and the stuff on the

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<v Speaker 1>pages might be really interesting, or it might be really informative,

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<v Speaker 1>or or really entertaining. It could be a list of

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<v Speaker 1>great jokes. But the fact was those pages didn't change, right.

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<v Speaker 1>The content on that page on day one would be

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<v Speaker 1>exactly the same on day one hundred and the same

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<v Speaker 1>on day one thousand. So you would probably just go

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<v Speaker 1>to the page once to learn something, and chances are

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<v Speaker 1>you'd never return again. There would be no reason to,

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<v Speaker 1>there'd be nothing new there. And so the experience of

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<v Speaker 1>the web had really limited interactivity, and mostly it was

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<v Speaker 1>confined to clicking on any active links they're on a page,

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<v Speaker 1>and then going to some other similarly static page. So

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<v Speaker 1>it was an incredible achievement, an amazing tool, but it

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<v Speaker 1>was still, especially when you look at what the web

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<v Speaker 1>is now, limited in abilities and scope. I Darcy's point

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<v Speaker 1>was that the web could and would do much much

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<v Speaker 1>more now. The reason that that could even happen was

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<v Speaker 1>actually due to the convergence of many things, and all

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<v Speaker 1>of those things were made possible because of the foundation

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<v Speaker 1>of the basic protocols or sets of rules if you prefer.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what protocols are. They are just kind of like

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<v Speaker 1>instructions or rule sets. Anyway, there are some basic protocols

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<v Speaker 1>that support the Internet in general and the Web in particular.

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<v Speaker 1>So for those protocols, you've got the Hypertext Protocol or

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<v Speaker 1>h T t P, very important for the Web. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the protocol that allows things like the linking of

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<v Speaker 1>documents together. And you've also got a pair of protocols

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<v Speaker 1>called t c P I P and that governs how

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<v Speaker 1>files move across networks and across the Internet. So these

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<v Speaker 1>protocols coupled with the Uniform Resource Locator or u r

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<v Speaker 1>L UH that was really important to The r L

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<v Speaker 1>denotes a specific file location on a network, so that way,

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<v Speaker 1>when you are clicking a link in your browser to

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<v Speaker 1>take you to another page, the browser can actually call

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<v Speaker 1>up that page because the u r L has the location. Otherwise,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you wouldn't know what computer was hosting that

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<v Speaker 1>particular page, and you would do nothing would happen. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>you would just be searching for something. But all of

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<v Speaker 1>these different things made the Web stuff possible, and those

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<v Speaker 1>would not change. I mean, they would evolve, but they

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't become a totally new thing. So Web two point

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<v Speaker 1>oh would not involve overhauling the bedrock of the web itself.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't about scrapping what came before and building something new.

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<v Speaker 1>It was more about kind of changing the features that

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<v Speaker 1>you would find on websites themselves. So we had these

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<v Speaker 1>other technologies that were enhancing the web experience. There were

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<v Speaker 1>new markup languages, there were new versions of HTML like

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<v Speaker 1>dynamic HDML. There were new protocols that allowed for streaming

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<v Speaker 1>media like streaming audio and streaming video. There were enhancements

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<v Speaker 1>that allowed for again like dynamic elements on the web

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<v Speaker 1>pages themselves, so a page could have something that could

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<v Speaker 1>update over and over again, which also meant that there

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<v Speaker 1>would be reasons for people to return to that same

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<v Speaker 1>page over and over again because it wouldn't be the

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<v Speaker 1>exact same thing they had seen when they came on

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<v Speaker 1>day one. In addition, there could be elements that would

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<v Speaker 1>let people interact either with the websites themselves or with

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<v Speaker 1>one another, or both, and that set the stage for

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<v Speaker 1>stuff like user generated content and social network platforms. So

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<v Speaker 1>this kind of interactivity could be as simple as like

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<v Speaker 1>leaving a message on a comments page, or like a

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<v Speaker 1>review on a commerce site like Amazon, or it could

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<v Speaker 1>be as complicated as uploading a video to a host

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<v Speaker 1>website and attracting people to watch that video. There was

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<v Speaker 1>also the study improved in data transfer speeds. That was

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<v Speaker 1>really important because without that then these more rich experiences

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<v Speaker 1>would take so much time to install and to consume

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<v Speaker 1>that they wouldn't do any good. Like if you're told, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>there's gonna be this great web page, you're just gonna

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<v Speaker 1>to wait forty five minutes for it to load, Chances

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<v Speaker 1>are you're not gonna invest that time for that experience.

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<v Speaker 1>So all of these different elements were critical to making

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<v Speaker 1>the next phase of the Web of possibility. Now, on

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<v Speaker 1>top of all this, Darcy's hype hypothesis included some really

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<v Speaker 1>forward thinking stuff like the fact that we would see

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<v Speaker 1>web connectivity extend beyond desktop computers and laptops, and we

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<v Speaker 1>would see examples like web connected televisions and car dashboards

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<v Speaker 1>and mobile game devices. Uh. Darcy even talked about web

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<v Speaker 1>connected phones. And this was in the era before we

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<v Speaker 1>started being serious smartphones. This is remember the iPhone doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>come out until two thousand seven. So essentially, Darcy was

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<v Speaker 1>predicting a mobile and modular web, complete with advocating for

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<v Speaker 1>websites that would render in such a way as to

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<v Speaker 1>be optimized for the end device. Darcy was saying, that's

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<v Speaker 1>going to be absolutely necessary, that it would be impractical

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<v Speaker 1>and uh and and self defeating if you had a

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<v Speaker 1>one size fits all web layout, because the experience on

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<v Speaker 1>a device like a handheld device would be totally different

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<v Speaker 1>from that from a desktop. And now we have entire

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<v Speaker 1>companies that are based around that idea, right, you have

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<v Speaker 1>companies like squarespace where they create layouts that have uh

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<v Speaker 1>that that capability of sizing and uh emphasizing web pages

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<v Speaker 1>properly depended upon what platform you're using to view the website.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, Darcy was for seeing all this. In fact,

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<v Speaker 1>Darcy even Gay was a very early glimpse at the

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<v Speaker 1>concept of the Internet of Things. So again, really really

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<v Speaker 1>great articles. I mean, like I've I've made predictions in

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<v Speaker 1>tech before, I have never been that savvy and that accurate.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, it's pretty bold. Now in hindsight, of course,

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<v Speaker 1>we can say, yeah, that's where it went. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it makes sense that obviously that's where it was going

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<v Speaker 1>to go. But at the time Darcy's predictions weren't necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>rock solid. I mean, one big reason for that is

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<v Speaker 1>ninety nine was at the height of the first hype

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<v Speaker 1>cycle for the web. I'll explain what I mean when

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<v Speaker 1>we come back from these messages all right now. In

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<v Speaker 1>the early early years of the web, it took a

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<v Speaker 1>while for the web to really kind of take off,

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<v Speaker 1>partly because in the earliest days of the web, there

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<v Speaker 1>were regulations in place that prevented the commercial use of

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<v Speaker 1>the inner at Once those were lifted, things would start

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<v Speaker 1>to change. And by the late nineties, pretty much every

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<v Speaker 1>company and every organization out there had become convinced that

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<v Speaker 1>they needed to have a web presence to be competitive

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<v Speaker 1>and effective into the next century. So new companies that

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<v Speaker 1>leveraged the web as a fundamental part of their business

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<v Speaker 1>also popped up right. Not just companies saying how can

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<v Speaker 1>we use the web to do what we do now

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<v Speaker 1>but better? But there were brand new companies that said,

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<v Speaker 1>what can the web? You know, what opportunities do the web?

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<v Speaker 1>Does the web give us to do business? Now? Some

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<v Speaker 1>of those companies really didn't even have business plans per se.

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<v Speaker 1>They might have had a vision of what they might

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<v Speaker 1>be able to provide thanks to the powers of the web,

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<v Speaker 1>but when it came to an actual plan to generate revenue,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of these companies felt pretty short of that goal.

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<v Speaker 1>It was really a digital gold rush and land grab

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<v Speaker 1>all wrapped up together, and people were pouring billions of

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<v Speaker 1>dollars into it. And as we know now, that trend

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<v Speaker 1>at the time was unsustainable. Uh, it would turn out

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<v Speaker 1>that a lot of those startups that first appeared in

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<v Speaker 1>those early days were incapable of generating enough revenue to

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<v Speaker 1>support themselves. So in some cases, companies were scaling far

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<v Speaker 1>too quickly, and once they scaled to a certain size,

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<v Speaker 1>their expenses were so great that they were spending more

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<v Speaker 1>money than they were bringing in. But in a few

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<v Speaker 1>other cases, and these were high profile ones, and unfortunately

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<v Speaker 1>it it really kind of cast a shadow over the

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<v Speaker 1>web in general. You had these starry eyed web company

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<v Speaker 1>founders who were spending ludicrous amounts of money on lavish

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<v Speaker 1>offices and amenities, and you know, paying themselves this crazy

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<v Speaker 1>salary using investments, and they weren't really using the investment

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<v Speaker 1>money to actually establish a working business, and once the

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<v Speaker 1>money ran out, then the companies were folding. Meanwhile, you

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<v Speaker 1>had employees who were jumping from job to job because

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<v Speaker 1>they were attracted by laughish benefits packages. I would also

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<v Speaker 1>say lavish salaries, but in many cases the compensation largely

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<v Speaker 1>came in the form of stock options or actual shares

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<v Speaker 1>of the company itself. And yes, that can be incredibly valuable.

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<v Speaker 1>If your company hits the big time or if some

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<v Speaker 1>other company decides to acquire it and then you get

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<v Speaker 1>paid out for your equity in the company, that can

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<v Speaker 1>be huge. But if a company falters, well, then there's

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<v Speaker 1>a good chance your stock is not going to be

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<v Speaker 1>worth the paper it's printed on. And unfortunately, that happened

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<v Speaker 1>a lot. So the dot com bubble burst in the

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<v Speaker 1>early two thousand's that was the initial burst. The spring

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<v Speaker 1>of two thousand saw stock prices take a massive hit

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<v Speaker 1>in the tech sector as Japan entered into an economic recession,

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<v Speaker 1>and that kind of precipitated this global response, and there

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<v Speaker 1>was an increased amount of attention paid to how a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of internet companies were burning through their initial investment

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<v Speaker 1>cash way too quickly with no way to generate revenues.

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<v Speaker 1>So unless they were going to get regular injections of

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<v Speaker 1>investment cash. They just couldn't stick around because there was

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<v Speaker 1>there was nothing to pay for operations. Then the following year,

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<v Speaker 1>the terrorist attacks in the United States on September eleven,

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand one, that caused another big drop in the

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<v Speaker 1>stock market, and at that point, companies that were already

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<v Speaker 1>kind of on the brink folded and it was incredibly bleak.

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<v Speaker 1>But some companies were able to weather the storms. So

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<v Speaker 1>companies like Amazon made it through just barely. And I've

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<v Speaker 1>talked about that story in a previous episode of Tech Stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Um I believe it might have been owned business on

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<v Speaker 1>the brink, but either way, amazon survival of the dot

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<v Speaker 1>com bubble was really more down to luck than anything else.

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<v Speaker 1>eBay was another site that made it through the dot

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<v Speaker 1>com bubble, and of course there were others. Now flash

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<v Speaker 1>forward to two thousand four, the tech industry was kind

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<v Speaker 1>of on the road to recovery. There were people who

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<v Speaker 1>are actually kind of eager to look ahead at this point,

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<v Speaker 1>Like there was a lot of damage control and triage

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<v Speaker 1>in the wake of the dot com bubble burst. But

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<v Speaker 1>by two thousand four we had kind of rounded the corner.

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<v Speaker 1>On that, and that's when a media company called O'Reilly,

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<v Speaker 1>founded by Tim O'Reilly, planned a conference with the name

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<v Speaker 1>the Web two point oh Conference. And this is really

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<v Speaker 1>where the term web two point oh became famous. So again,

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<v Speaker 1>Darcy had invented the phrase five years earlier, but it

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<v Speaker 1>was this conference in two thousand four where it really

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<v Speaker 1>became a buzzword. And I would argue that web two

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<v Speaker 1>point oh took on an additional meaning at this conference,

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<v Speaker 1>and that would be that the strategies that some companies

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<v Speaker 1>like Amazon had been using that helped or at least

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<v Speaker 1>appeared to help get them through the dot com bubble

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<v Speaker 1>burst and survive were ones that related to web two

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<v Speaker 1>point oh. So the implication I got was that features

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<v Speaker 1>like dynamic elements and support for user generated content, the

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<v Speaker 1>incorporation of other interactive elements, and the use of web

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<v Speaker 1>based media were what set the survivors of the dot

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<v Speaker 1>com bubble burst apart from other companies that failed to

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<v Speaker 1>attract a lot of traffic and make it through. And

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<v Speaker 1>there's definitely some truth to that. I mean, I sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>get the feeling the message was, Hey, those companies that

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<v Speaker 1>didn't make it through the dot com bubble we're holding

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<v Speaker 1>too tightly onto the old Web one point oh way,

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<v Speaker 1>but that's not necessarily true. There were companies that were

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<v Speaker 1>part of the mini that folded that had Web two

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<v Speaker 1>point oh features to them. So you couldn't just point

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<v Speaker 1>to this and say if you were Web one point oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you failed, because not all Web one point oh sites

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<v Speaker 1>went away, and if you were Web two point oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you survived because not all those were true either. Now

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<v Speaker 1>I also admit that this could be just my own

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<v Speaker 1>misinterpretation of the messaging here. It just felt like that

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<v Speaker 1>was kind of what the point was that like, in

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<v Speaker 1>order to really thrive, you need to be Web two

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<v Speaker 1>point oh. But you know, you can get pretty cynical

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<v Speaker 1>when you sift through a lot of marketing buzz speaks,

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<v Speaker 1>So that might just be my own, you know, me

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<v Speaker 1>bringing baggage to it. Anyway, this is where Web two

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<v Speaker 1>point oh really took off as a definition, and you

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<v Speaker 1>can definitely see how stuff like dynamic elements and incorporation

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<v Speaker 1>of media and social interactivity and all those sort of

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<v Speaker 1>things have become the underpinnings for much of the Web today,

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<v Speaker 1>from social networking sites to gaming to news to commerce.

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<v Speaker 1>It's pretty comment to encounters some or even all of

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<v Speaker 1>these features. So Darcy was on point. I'm telling you

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<v Speaker 1>now when it comes to Web three or Web three

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<v Speaker 1>point oh, that definition depends upon whom you're talking to. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>There's the Tim burners Leave version of Web three point oh.

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<v Speaker 1>He's again the guy who invented the web, and his

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<v Speaker 1>vision of Web three point oh is a machine readable web,

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<v Speaker 1>or the so called semantic web. With the semantic web,

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<v Speaker 1>each person's experience would be customized, you know, tailored if

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<v Speaker 1>you will, to their own behaviors and needs. And we

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<v Speaker 1>actually see elements of this already taking form, and things

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<v Speaker 1>like recommendation engines where on shopping sites, media sites, or

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<v Speaker 1>social networking sites start giving you recommended things to look at. However,

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<v Speaker 1>extend that sort of thing to your total experience on

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<v Speaker 1>the web and you get closer to what Tim berners

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<v Speaker 1>Lee vision was, and it would be a web that

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<v Speaker 1>would respond instantly to your needs and provide you with

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<v Speaker 1>the results you want, assuming it was working properly. And

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<v Speaker 1>then there's the other definition, the more recent one, which

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<v Speaker 1>dates to you know, around two thousand fourteen or so,

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<v Speaker 1>and to be fair, most people don't actually refer to

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<v Speaker 1>it as Web three point oh. They call it just

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<v Speaker 1>Web three with no space between the B and web

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<v Speaker 1>and the numeral three. This version isn't about the semantic web.

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<v Speaker 1>It's more about relying on blockchain technology to underlie a

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<v Speaker 1>future version of the web, so that the web would

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<v Speaker 1>actually be built on top of blockchain. Uh. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the future that crypto enthusiasts and n f T fans

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<v Speaker 1>really get excited about, and one in which there would

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<v Speaker 1>be like a token based economy and a decent trualized

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<v Speaker 1>approach to the web, at least in theory. But as

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<v Speaker 1>I said, I'll have to do a full episode about

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<v Speaker 1>what Web three really means and what it might really

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<v Speaker 1>look like in the future, and question about is it

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<v Speaker 1>truly decentralized or not spoiler alert, I am a skeptic.

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<v Speaker 1>But for now, that's a quick refresher on what Web

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<v Speaker 1>one point oh, which really wasn't defined until that era

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<v Speaker 1>was coming to an end, and Web two point oh

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<v Speaker 1>actually are and again in the future I'll tackle Web

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<v Speaker 1>three now. If you have suggestions for topics I should

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