Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web: An Early Explainer

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What is Web 3.0? So in 1999, we entered the Web 2.0 generation, which focuses on usability and allows end users more flexibility to create and publish their own content and exchange dialogue with other users via social media. Now, despite all of this, Web 2.0 is generally static user-generated content served to the masses and may not serve an individual user's needs. And the answer to a more personalized experience is Web 3.0, which, unlike Web 2.0, heavily relies on machine learning and artificial intelligence. It aims to create more open, connected, and intelligent websites, focusing on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide more personalized and relevant information to each user, similar to the dynamics we experience in real-world human interaction. Now, an example of this would be asking Siri where the nearest gas station is, and you would be provided the closest gas station to your location, rather than a list of gas stations and your general area based on a typed search query.