With all talk about Web3, Jim Nielsen examined Dieter Bohn’s 2017 article, ‘And now, a brief definition of the web’. An initial excerpt from the original:
Traditionally, we think of the web as a combination of a set of specific technologies paired with some core philosophical principles. The problem — the reason this question even matters — is that there are a lot of potential replacements for the parts of the web that fix what’s broken with technology, while undermining the principles that ought to go with it.
And Nielsen’s comment:
I like this take. “The web” isn’t solely a stack of technologies (URLs, HTML, CSS, JS). It’s also a set of principles—principles, as I wrote, imbued into the web with its birth
And some fundamental rules:
To count as being part of the web, your app or page must:
1. Be linkable, and
2. Allow any client to access it.