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<span class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-5">
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<h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Web1</h3>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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Nostalgically recalled for chat rooms and IRC by tech enthusiasts,
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signifies the era of integrated services like AOL dial-up, providing
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web access, email, shopping, and chat for mainstream users.
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Web1 is probably best remembered by geeks as chat rooms and IRC (which
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still exist to this day, but only to power users). To normal users it
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was the age of AOL dial-up and similar networks where you got web,
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email, shopping, and chat all in one place.
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</span>
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class="float-right mt-16 w-[300px] space-y-10 mr-5 overflow-y-auto max-h-[400px]"
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<h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Web2</h3>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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Featuring improved gaming, online apps, and video streaming, was
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swiftly monopolized by Silicon Valley, creating a top-down system
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controlled by a few tech elites. Despite innovations, this system,
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including the broader internet infrastructure like ISPs and domains,
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regulates your web experience, often citing "safety".
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<p class="font-body text-body text-2xl">
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Web2 since evolved with the web browser and we got better gaming,
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online apps, video streaming and calling and much, much more. However,
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it also got quickly captured by Silicon Valley and what some refer to
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as the "tech bros".
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</p>
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<p class="font-body text-body text-2xl">
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So <i>despite</i> the innovation that occurred, it has turned into a top-down
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system where only a few geeks/CEO's and their investors control your entire
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web.
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<p class="font-body text-body text-2xl">
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This also excludes the wider internet infrastructure of domains and
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ISP's (internet providers and hosting), who also play a part in
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controlling your web, be it for your "safety", or other reasons.
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</p>
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</span>
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<h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Crypto/<br />DeFi</h3>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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The advent of Bitcoin sparked innovation, but over time,
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centralization increased. Factors such as the influx of big money,
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greed, hype, and FOMO contributed to this trend. The introduction of
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many money legos worsened the situation, leading to boom and bust
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cycles.
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We get the birth of Bitcoin and all of the innovation that followed.
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While BTC and a handful of other chains have remained decentralized
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both in operation, and access, the innovation over time has caused
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things to re-centralize.
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This is due to several factors including big money coming in, pushing
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greed, hype, and "FOMO". The invention of several new logos's causing
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this to only get worse, creating a classic "boom" and "bust". Human
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nature tends to be greedy, so over time, money overrode principles.
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</p>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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Many development teams prioritized inventing new ideas and "shipping"
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them to users, while selling them "tokens" to exit at their expense,
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all while knowing none of what they created was <i
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>truly decentralized</i
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>.
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</p>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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It became one large crypto casino.
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</p>
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<h3 class="font-display text-6xl">Web3</h3>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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Web3 emerged as a buzzword to replace DeFi, but its meaning varies.
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Despite aiming for decentralization, Web3 relies on centralized
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crypto/DeFi infrastructure. Money dominates over ideology, driven by
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funders. A balance is necessary between free markets and public goods
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to address the current imbalance.
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What to say about Web3? Honestly... upfront it appeared to get used as
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a new buzz word to replace "DeFi". Terms like "Web3" and "Metaverse"
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have many different meanings to many people. It is intended to include
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more than just money and trading, and yet every blockchain-based
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system that can be labeled "web3" still builds onto of the same
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centralized crypto/defi infrastructure.
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</p>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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The end result is an ecosystem that promotes and <b><i>wants</i></b> to
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be decentralized, but where money overrules ideology, ethos, and principles.
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This is in part due to who's bankrolling it all, and thus the incentives
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to build make it more about the money then about freedom.
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</p>
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<p class="font-body text-2xl text-body">
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There needs to be a balance here between free markets/money and public
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goods/infra, and so far things are way out of wack and need to be
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fixed.
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</p>
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