About Web 3.0

Web3.0, the third generation of Internet, means a decentralized web world supported by DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) and based on blockchain, which will also be the infrastructure technology driving the meta-universe.

In the Web3.0 world, ownership and control are decentralized, and both builders and users can hold tokens such as NFT to enjoy specific web services. Whether Web3.0 will become mainstream in the foreseeable future is still unknown. However, driven by the global blockchain technology boom, Web3.0 is no longer a theory or a buzzword on paper, but a technological revolution that will disrupt the Internet world.

Web 3.0 was first introduced to the public in 2001 by Dale Dougherty, vice president of O'Reilly Media, an American computer information book publishing company. He was also an important promoter of Web 2.0 in its early days, when the concept of Web 3.0 was rather vague, simply imagining that the future of the Web would place more emphasis on customisation and personalisation; the real promoter of Web 3.0 was Tim Berners-Lee, known as the father of the global information network, who proposed in 1998 He proposed the basic concept of Semantic Web in 1998. In an interview in 2005, he pointed out that the Semantic Web was what he had in mind for Web 3.0, a new generation of the Internet in which computers will process content in a way that mimics humans, and all data can be understood and connected contextually and conceptually. Blockchain and Bitcoin later emerged, emphasizing the importance of not relying on central institutions to issue new currencies, maintain transactions, use digital cryptographic algorithms, etc., and are gaining influence.

In 2014, Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ether, reintroduced the idea of Web 3.0. He pointed out that there should be an uncensored, low-threshold basic web delivery protocol to replace traditional web technologies such as AJAX, HTTP and MySQL, and that it could be verified to protect the information and money flow of web users.