The "common sense" story of the web goes something like this:

Web 1.0: The web is for sharing information.
Web 2.0: But what if we could make money from it too?
Web 3.0: The web is now just about making money.

There's a problem with this story. #Web3 isn't really the web at all. It's largely app-based, and the enclosure of the web actually happened during #Web2, when platforms turned shared spaces into commercial silos.

So the only genuinely useful part of this "common sense" history is #Web1.0: the original idea of an #openweb for sharing.

We don't need another version of the same enclosure dressed up as progress. We need to recover the promise: an open, decentralised web built around sharing, participation and the commons.

Back to the roots, but with 30 years of lessons learned. #OMN #4opens