The only thing that that the web of 2000 lacked was an adequate funding mechanism. People were building phenomenal decentralized applications, but there was no way to fund the projects. A huge amount of capital flowed into the creation of web sites, but all of the efforts to actually make money from the web sites, they were all dot-bombs and money losers ... leading to the dot com crash.

The term Web 2.0 was coined in 2004 by O'Reilly Media to sell a series of conferences that started in 2004. There was no new technology.

Yes, there was a browser war that put Internet Explorer out of business, but no new technology.

The term Web 2.0 was really is associated with market consolidation.

Cryptocurrency has created a mechanism that might be able to fund independent web sites. Cryptocurrency will probably become highly centralized.

But I agree completely with your premise that the progression from web1.0 thru web2.0 to web3.0 is a lie. Pushing such lies is likely to undermine efforts to create a decentralized internet.

!pizza