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Tim Berners-Lee, Solid, and the arrival of the Web 3.0

Kurt Bauer on October 07, 2018

Everyone was living their best lives last weekend, waking up and sipping on some tea or getting their laundry done. It was a weekend like any oth...
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Andrew Tanner πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Tim's vision for Solid comes at a time when I myself am starting to think more about what data about myself is out there. I've started to peal myself away from the bigger organisations and my data with it. It's not so much that I consider my data so precious but more that I'm not happy about how centralised the web has become. I'll be following this project closely. It's a huge idea and not one I'm convinced could pay off unless the public starts to take data and privacy more seriously but Tim has a habit of turning humble ideas into something enormous...

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Felicitas Pojtinger

Could not agree more. It's capitalist Stockholm syndrom all over again.
(Not saying China are the good guys, they export 100000+ organs from political prisoners every year, but ... I mean the US doesn't seem to care about such things ...)

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tux0r

Please stop giving the web "version numbers". It is wrong.

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Felicitas Pojtinger

Also, web3 is the name of the ether SDK.

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Dian Fay

Also also, "Web 1.0" was a Cambrian explosion of individual technological experimentation (with, admittedly, something of an opportunity cost) that Web 2.0 killed off as soon as it could because vernacular web design isn't easily commoditized. We were not waiting to be spoonfed information from a few corporations: we were connecting with others who had similar interests, we were traversing hand-curated link networks that seemed limitless, we were congregating in old-fashioned forums and building millions of tiny communities, we were tiling tiny borderline-psychedelic jpgs for our homepage backgrounds and writing under hilariously gothy pseudonyms and searching for the perfect spinning flaming skull gifs because nobody had told us we shouldn't do any of that and it was wonderful even when it sucked.

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Katie

I know, right? WEBRINGS!

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Ben Halpern

Berners-Lee's book is a great look into those beginnings he describes.

Included in my list of favorite code history books

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J Beetz

Thanks for writing this. I'm excited about this project also, started learning how to set up a solid server this past weekend.