To be fair, ideas like can emerge all together, whether in parallel or because people were talking to each other about it.
Personally for me, I don't think web3 will get anywhere (and I could be wrong). I'm more interested in IPFS (and less so with FileCoin) because the use-case I am interested in is much narrower in scope. It's also interesting to me that "web3" got hijacked from semantic web ... though semantic web stalled out as well.
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I suppose "long before" is a mischaracterization. According to Protocol Lab's history, this stuff was bandied about in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20210428163146/https://protocol....
To be fair, ideas like can emerge all together, whether in parallel or because people were talking to each other about it.
Personally for me, I don't think web3 will get anywhere (and I could be wrong). I'm more interested in IPFS (and less so with FileCoin) because the use-case I am interested in is much narrower in scope. It's also interesting to me that "web3" got hijacked from semantic web ... though semantic web stalled out as well.