[HN Gopher] Web5 Is Happening
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       Web5 Is Happening
        
       Author : janandonly
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-10-28 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | bronikowski wrote:
       | I hope Rolling Stones will be still around to lend their music
       | for web95 media tour. Seeing how things are going (in rotten
       | minds of marketing people), it's only few weeks away.
        
       | c7b wrote:
       | Never mind the almost unbearable cringe of incrementing a
       | buzzword by not one, but two counts - do you have an explanation
       | what exactly warrants this increment at all? The only thing in
       | there that I don't remember as "web3" are the decentralized web
       | nodes, and I'm not really sure whether those are new either.
       | 
       | Not trying to be sarcastic, I think topics like DID are
       | important, especially as BigTech looks set to try to kill
       | passwords.
        
       | louison11 wrote:
       | Am I the only one who fails to see this "Web5" as anything but a
       | marketing plot to make a product that is doing exactly what every
       | other startup in Web3 is trying to do somehow stand out?
        
         | freemrkt8 wrote:
         | Yeah it's all indirection to generate hype for a new way to
         | manage electron state in a machine.
         | 
         | You see, it is beneath Jack and Co. to participate in the real
         | work of keeping themselves alive.
         | 
         | Jack recently apologized for his role in centralizing the web
         | but of course he's going to be a part of the new protocol
         | centralization effort.
        
       | 2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote:
       | I'm more of a Web7 guy, personally. Web3 is the usual boring and
       | useless stuff. Web5 is too bloated.
        
         | bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
         | What about Web9? Oh yeah, I forgot... Web7-8-9.
        
         | throwaway81523 wrote:
         | I'm happy for web7's return to sanity. I could never remember
         | the 32 digit hex url's in web6.
        
           | 2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote:
           | Truly a hassle.
        
           | exclusiv wrote:
           | Definitely better than WEB2015 also known as WEB6
        
         | greatgib wrote:
         | Good that you like web 7, because web 8 was censored by anti
         | hate speech censorship laws!
        
       | psadri wrote:
       | This reminds me of The Onion 5 blade razor parody:
       | 
       | https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
        
       | RobotToaster wrote:
       | What happened to web 4?
        
         | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
         | Web 4 exclusively uses tachyon-based processing machines and
         | hasn't been built yet.
        
           | 7952 wrote:
           | I hope they finally add the time travel extension to the
           | TCP/IP standard.
        
         | ButterWashed wrote:
         | They should align the Web version with IP and move straight
         | onto v6 really...
        
         | creeble wrote:
         | Same thing as web 2 and 3.
        
       | anm89 wrote:
       | Web 19 will be when they give up and just start serving html over
       | http for restaurant websites again
        
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