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The differences between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
The future of the internet
Understanding the potential of Web 3.0
The internet started as an improvement on traditional libraries. Web pages could link to content anywhere else on the internet, which meant that content outside a certain web page would still be at users' fingertips. And people, including bad actors, can alter or delete the content they visit by following links. When someone changes the content behind a link, that’s “content drift.” When someone deletes it, that’s “link rot.”
Before today’s internet, the primary way to preserve something was to consign it to writing and that’s one of the reasons texts from thousands of years ago survived.
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Its designers were oriented toward academic issues and lacked the funding to build the web with a top-down, centralized structure.
They weren’t looking to monetize the internet.
They had no interest in fashioning a big, for-profit company.
They insis...
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The internet’s organization enabled it to grow almost without limit, making the internet’s content that many people depend on ephemeral and often unreliable.
Brewster Kahle, a technologist who founded the Internet Archive called the “Wayback Machine...
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Even old, out-of-date, rarely used books are somewhere on the shelves in a traditional library but that’s not necessarily the case on the internet. Publishers or other businesses may close, rendering their digital content inaccessible.
When the United States government tem...
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Many books or texts that originate as digital are also ephemeral. These texts may have not a physical counterpart. Readers aren’t buying the text itself, they’re purchasing a subscription. If the subscription expires, the reader will no longer have access to the book or article.
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