Is Web3 the web?

“In fact, Web3 is not the web at all,” he told an audience at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon. Berners-Lee said people too often conflate Web3 with “Web 3.0,” his own proposal for reshaping the internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-founder and chief technology of Inrupt, speaking at Web Summit 2022.

Does Tim Berners-Lee think blockchain is a viable solution?

Get new users downloading your project releases today! Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, said Friday that he doesn't view blockchain as a viable solution for building the next iteration of the internet. From a report: He has his own web decentralization project called Solid.

Does Tim Berners-Lee align himself with Web3's promise of salvation?

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to rescue his creation from centralization. But does he align himself with Web3’s promise of salvation? At TNW Conference, the computer scientist gave a one-word answer: “Nope.” That snub may seem to clash with Berners-Lee’s recent actions.

Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

Tim Berners-Lee is best known as the creator of the World Wide Web, and he is still trying to improve his creation beyond its current state. The future of the web conceived by the British computer scientist, however, doesn't resemble what marketers and startups are trying to sell as the "Web3" decentralized utopia.