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Hmm, odd. I’m already (oh god kill me) old enough to remember when because “semantic web” was a term thrown around even before web2 got to be known as web2 (and this wasn’t even that long ago)
Don’t think I’ve seen the thing of “3.0 as per author” as you mention here, link?
check it out, it's kind of interesting as a sort of way to treat web technology like a database (and some bits feel surprisingly close to Prolog in semantics, which tracks) but it's been pretty spectacularly unsuccessful at gaining any real adoption (which gave the cryptobros ample opportunity to hop in and parasitize the term, leading to their also spectacularly unsuccessful version of web 3). see also solid, which is an implementation of a bunch of Semantic Web ideas (and it barely works, and I'm fairly certain I remember seeing a bunch of folks quit the project all at once recently), and note that the web, semantic web, and solid are all Tim Berners-Lee projects
The Semantic Web was TBL's Xanadu.
my god, it exactly is
@self @froztbyte
"conceived the Solid project ... as a way to give individual users full control over the usage of their data"
"Berners-Lee's research team collaborated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute "
I see a potential problem.
Oic
I hadn’t actually realised it was a stolen term (although in retrospect, uh, that tracks)
At each recurrence of running into shit like this, I’m glad (and optimistic(?)) that the average coiner shitbird tended more greedy than clever, and that that by itself would help self-shorten the period of awful
(There’s still the remainder, of course, and they have to be kept watch on as usual)