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As my partner Brad noted in 2019, the first generation of the internet (aka “Web 1”) was built as a “stateless” system. In other words, data packets

As my partner Brad noted in 2019 , the first generation of the internet (aka “Web 1”) was built as a “stateless” system. In other words, data packets could be moved around the network, but the network itself couldn’t store them or create persistent data out of them. So, a generation of companies (aka “Web 2”) emerged to solve this problem, essentially making it so data could be saved and used among applications. Fast forward 20 years, and the data in the Web 2 layer has provided tremendous value, to shareholders, consumers, developers, and small businesses. But it is fundamentally limited in i

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