The History of Web3.0
To better understand Web3.0 it is necessary to first take a historical perspective on these buzzwords. The concept of Metaverse was originated from the science fiction novel “Avalanche” published by American author Neal Stephenson in 1992. The word “Metaverse” is composed of Meta and Verse, Meta means beyond, and verse stands for universe, which together usually means the concept of “transcendent universe”, that is, an artificial cosmic space-time that runs parallel to the real world.
MetaLife Advisor Henry Wang first proposed the concept of Web3.0 back in 2003, when he introduced AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) into the Web to build the first cross-border “One World One Web”. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, supported this definition in 2006, and added that the Internet should be decentralized where personal data should belong to individuals and not the Internet platform. In 2014, Gavin Wood, the founder of Polkadot, extended the Web3.0 concept and introduced blockchain technology for privacy protection. In 2017, SmartMesh developed the Photon Network to realize offline payment, and to build the decentralized Web3.0, further evolving the “One World One Web” vision.
The Web2.5 is a transition term introduced by Henry to distinguish the real Web3.0 from some termed Web3.0 applications that are not fully decentralized, and may also be referred to the bridge from Web2.0 to Web3.0, sort of half-way house.
Why Do We Need a Fully Decentralized Web3.0?
As seen in recent humanity crisis around the world, no one digital application, centralized or decentralized can remain functional when internet is taken out. Freedom of speech and a democratic social media cannot exist if the social network continue to rely on servers and internet. A truly Web3.0 decentralized network application is one that continues to operate without centralized servers and Internet, because it supports direct peer-to-peer communication and offline value transfer (digital currency offline payment).
For example, the MetaLife Intergalactic Social Networking Protocol removes servers totally, instead, application, storage, authentication, signing of messages are all done on the mobile device; hence communication between MetaLife Apps can happen peer-to-peer without acentralized message server. The micro-chain with full Merkle tree on everymobile device provides ultimate security, privacy and data recovery after device loss.
In the MetaLife Web3.0 Social Network, users are connected directly to each other, and cryptographically signed data is replicated peer-to-peer without any intermediaries. In effect, it provides a One World One Web, a truly free Web3.0 Interstellar Social Network that works with or without Internet.
Beside internet, MetaLife communicates through the Bluetooth low-energy wormhole protocol, a Web3.0 breakthrough technology created by the combined MetaLife and SmartMesh teams. It potentially enables the 3.4 billion population who presently has no access to Internet to enter the On World One Web Interstellar Social Network through MetaLife connection.
To build a social network available to all irrespective of their political or ethnic groups, MetaLife is building a decentralized network without a centralized authority. With that, issue on content curation and governance of the Metaverse can become extremely critical. Fortunately, Dan Larimer (a.k.a.BM), a key MetaLife Advisor and formerly Co-Founder of EOS, has been a visionary around Metaverse governance. Back by his experience from projects like Steemit, Voice, and Fractally, the fractal DAO governance coined by BM will be adopted as part of the governance of the MetaLife interstellar social network, the foundation for the open metaverse.
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