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15/06/22 13:59 PM IST

Web 5.0

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  • Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced his vision for a new decentralized web platform that is being called Web 5.0 and is being built with an aim to return “ownership of data and identity to individuals”.
Web 1.0,2.0,3.0 
  • Web 1.0 is the “read-only Web,” Web 2.0 is the “participative social Web,” and Web 3.0 is the “read, write, execute Web.”
  • Web 1.0. Web 1.0 was all about reading, and getting information.
  • Web 2.0 was all about reading, writing, and creating. So, users joined social platforms, and these platforms got big because of this created content.
  • Web 3.0 is all about reading, writing and owning. So, builders and creators can now own a piece of their own community, through NFTs, tokens etc.
Web 5.0 
  • Being developed by Dorsey’s Bitcoin business unit, The Block Head (TBH).
  • Simply put, Web 5.0 is Web 2.0 plus Web 3.0 that will allow users to ‘own their identity’ on the Internet and ‘control their data’.
  • Both Web 3.0 and Web 5.0 envision an Internet without threat of censorship – from governments or big tech, and without fear of significant outages.
Source- Indian Express 

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