Web 3.0 Already Happened
October 27, 2021

Archived from an original LinkedIn post by Brian Greenforest.

Original Post

Steve Haak and Olivier De Wulf please tell Ben Horowitz that Web 3.0 has passed long ago, and Industry 6.0 better aligns with modern versioning. Web 3.0 was in 2010, with Node.js and Flux and Backbone/Marionette (the post-AJAX post-jQuery structured interactive client-side applications with local navigation without going to server. AJAX was Web 2.0. WebSockets, localStorage, HTML5 and CSS3 were Web 3.0.)

Please stop branding the silly "web3" label (I understand you're trying to market and promote this name so badly). Too many of my friends feel ridiculed by your continued use of "web3."

Ask Paul Graham. Ask Brendan Eich. Ask Erik Elliott. Ask Dan Abramov.

Thank you very much, and I hope you'll hear us! 🙏

Happy Halloween, boo! 🎃