You will not know his name, but you are reading this news thanks to his ingenuity.
His name is Tim Berners-Lee and it is the creator what we now popularly know as Internet, as you can read on the CERN website. The popularization of concepts such as the Web3, the blockchain or the cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin having led historical falls, it seems that they led us to a internet version 3.0but its creator does not agree at all with this statement.
The Internet wants to evolve, but its creator has an idea that is far from the famous Web3
As reported by the digital media CNBC, the creator of the internet is determined to show the world a real alternative to internetperhaps a second version according to the times if you prefer, but it does not conceive of the Web3 more than like a baseless alternative. However, he already has his next big project: Solid.
If the famous Web3 it is for the decentralization, not depend on major players like Google, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon for example. This can include technologies such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies or NFTs. Nevertheless, for Tim Berners-Lee this is not a web concept at allas stated in the aforementioned medium:
Blockchain protocols may be good for some things, but they are not good for Solid. They are too slow, too expensive, and too public. Personal data archiving should be fast, cheap and private.
The big companies, according to Tim, are the ones that handle our data and it is your start-up the one that looks for a real alternative, through three mechanisms: a global accessfrom anywhere in the world, access identification to share data and a universal API, that allow applications to extract data from any source. Tim is not the first to show his doubts regarding the current state of Web3, with people like the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, or the ubiquitous Elon Musk relying on a alternative system as future of internet.