Web 3.0

The world wide web started as static, read-only content. Then, the era of interactive web technologies such as JavaScript and HTML facilitated the creation of interactive web platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and many more, and added more on-demand data with dynamic content and video streaming. Unknowingly, information related to our choices and interests was stored in cookies. These web technologies were then restricted by data privacy laws, which now require consent given that data has previously been monetized by being sold to companies who can tailor advertising to what users search for or base it on our personal interests, encroaching on our personal privacy. Later, social networks and the production of user-generated content flourished since data could be distributed and shared between various platforms and applications whose data was hosted, owned, and centralized by big companies. Today, we are at the inflection point of the evolution of the web.

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