{"id":8664,"date":"2022-02-12T23:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2022-02-12T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:37:41","slug":"getting-my-head-around-my-first-impressions-of-web3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/02\/12\/getting-my-head-around-my-first-impressions-of-web3\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting my head around \u2018My first impressions of web3\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
I heard this blog post<\/a> mentioned on a couple of podcasts a few weeks back and have only just got around to reading it. It\u2019s fascinating. The author, Moxie Marlinspike<\/a>, dissects the state of the current \u2018web3<\/a>\u2019 world of decentralised blockchains<\/a> and non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs). Reading his post is probably the most educational use I\u2019ve made of ten minutes this year, and I can\u2019t recommend it highly enough. I\u2019m jotting down my thoughts here in order to record and check my understanding.<\/p>\n

When we all started out on the Internet, companies ran their own servers \u2014 email servers, web servers for personal or corporate websites etc. We pulled data from other people\u2019s servers, and they pulled data from ours. Everything was distributed. This was actually the point, by design \u2014 ARPANET<\/a>, the forerunner to the Internet, was architected in such a way that if a chunk of the network was taken down, the rest of the network would stay up. Your requests for information would route around whatever problem had occurred. This was effectively \u2018web1<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Over time, the Internet has become more centralised around a number of \u2018big tech\u2019 companies for a variety of reasons:<\/p>\n