Is Tim Berners-Lee building the web's 'third layer'?

Tim Berners-Lee is building the web’s ‘third layer.’ Don’t call it Web3 The man who created the World Wide Web talks about Solid, his ambitious plan to give us all a private place to store—and selectively share—our online data. Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks at Web Summit in Lisbon on November 4, 2022.

What did Berners-Lee say about the Internet?

Berners-Lee said that when he invented the web in 1989, “if you were sufficiently switched on geeky, you could get yourself a computer. And you could put a web server on it, you could plug it into the internet. And you could have a website.”

Is Tim Berners-Lee selling the web?

This week, Sotheby’s revealed that Tim Berners-Lee sold an NFT of the original source code for the world wide web for a whopping $5.4 million. Before the NFT auction, Berners-Lee told the publication the Guardian: “I’m not selling the web – you won’t have to start paying money to follow links.

Why did Steve Berners-Lee scoff at Web3?

But Berners-Lee didn’t take to the Web Summit stage simply to scoff at Web3. He was there to talk about Solid, his own open-source gambit to reinvent the web through new decentralized, privacy-minded tools for wrangling data.