So Far, The Internet Has Two Stages: Web 1.0 And Web 2.0.
The Next Stage Is Naturally Web 3.0 (Web3 For Short). This Article Talks About My Preliminary Understanding Of Web3 And What It Is.
1、 Historical Review
In The Stage Of Web 1.0, Users Are Simple Content Consumers. The Content Is Provided By The Website. You Can See What The Website Asks You To See. A Typical Example Is The News Portal.
In The Web 2.0 Stage, Users Are The Producers Of Content, And The Website Is Just A Platform To Provide Services To Users. Typical Web 2.0 Platforms Include Wikipedia, Tiktok, Wechat, Etc.
2、 Characteristics Of Web3
Many Features Of Web3 Are Not Clear, But Many Foreign Articles Believe That It Is Related To Blockchain.
I Can't Figure Out How To Get This Conclusion. Recently Read an Article, Suddenly Figured It Out.
Web 1.0 Is The User Reading The Internet , Web 2.0 Is The User Writing To The Internet , And Web3 Is The User Living On The Internet .
Entertainment, Work, Study, Consumption And Communication All Happen Online. The Website Not Only Provides Services, But Also A Living Space. Part Of People's Life Can Be Completed Online.
Study On Education Websites, Hold Meetings On Conference Websites, Make Friends On Social Networking Websites And Have Fun On Game Websites. All Websites Together Constitute An All Inclusive Online World.
3、 Virtual World
If The Life Functions Of All Websites Can Be Connected Together, Allowing Users To Seamlessly Enter From One Scene To Another, It Constitutes A Virtual World. This Is Probably What The Recently Popular Meta Universe Looks Like.
At That Stage, Users No Longer Visit The Website, But Enter The Virtual World And Live A Virtual Online Life.
4、 Web3 Is Distributed
Obviously, Such A Virtual World Cannot Be Monopolized By One Or Several Giants, Otherwise We Will Rely On These Giants And Have To Abide By The Rules It Sets. When Your Life Is In The Virtual World, One Day The Giant Suddenly Decides To Close Your Account, Won't Your Virtual Life Stop Suddenly!
This Is Why Many People Propose That Web3 Should Be Distributed. This Has Two Meanings:
(1) It Is Not Centralized, So No Single Company Can Control It;
(2) Any Kind Of Service Has Multiple Providers. Connected Through Distributed Protocols, Users Can Transfer From One Provider To Another At A Very Low Cost.
5、 The Role Of Blockchain
If Web3 Is Determined To Be Distributed, Blockchain Is A Natural Infrastructure. Because Blockchain Is An Implementation Of Distributed Database, It Is Distributed In Itself, And Once The Information Is Chained, It Cannot Be Modified.
This Solves The Core Problem Of Web3: Data Exchange Between Different Websites Different Websites Can Freely Read And Write The Data Of The Same User, And These Data Are Reliable, So As To Ensure That Users Enter Another Website, Just Like Entering Different Parts Of The Same World.
Once Web3 Is Built On The Blockchain, According To The Design Of The Blockchain, Users Need To Have A Digital Wallet, Which Is Your ID Card And Bank Account In The Virtual World. Your Identity, Property And Consumption Are Identified By This Digital Wallet. The Website Uses The ID Of The Digital Wallet To Identify Who You Are.
On The Other Hand, With The Digital Wallet, Banks And Finance Will Become Virtual, Which Makes The Virtual World More Like The Real World.
6、 Digital Assets
The Blockchain Allows Arbitrary Data To Be Written, So It Is Inevitable That All Digital Records Of Our Virtual Life Can Be Placed On The Blockchain.
If Each Virtual Object Has Its Own Number And Records Them In The Blockchain, Its Owner Can Be Determined (i.e. Associated With The Digital Wallet).
For Example, Each Digital Toothbrush In The Virtual World Can Have A Unique Number On The Blockchain, Which Will Not Be Confused With Other Toothbrushes, And The Owner Of Each Toothbrush Can Be Determined By Associating It With The Digital Wallet.
I Don't Know Why I Put The Toothbrush On The Blockchain. I Just Give An Example To Show That The Blockchain Can Do This.
We Can Even Trade This Toothbrush, Register It In Another Digital Wallet And Turn Its Owner Into Someone Else. That's What NFT, Which Is Very Popular Now, Is Doing, But What It Registers On The Blockchain Is Not A Toothbrush, But A Digital Collection.
Entrepreneur Chris DixonNot Long Ago, He Publicly Said, "Web3 Is Ownership", Which Is What He Meant.
If All People, All Items And All Transactions Are Registered On The Blockchain, The Playing Methods Of Web3 Based On It Are Endless And Unimaginable Now. The Possibility Of Virtual World Is 100 Times And 1000 Times More Than That Of Real World.
At Present, It Is Only The Initial Stage Of Web3, The Infrastructure Has Not Been Completed, And The Playing Methods Are Still Being Explored, But The Progress Is Very Fast. There Should Be Countless Innovations And Opportunities In This Field, Which Deserves Close Attention.
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