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I was just about to mention that.

At least it still lives on in the metadata used for Google smart snippets, and it's used a lot in the life sciences, and on wikidata. I really wish it went further, but at least it's still useful for most intents and proposes despite the small ecosystem.

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there is still _some_ activity going on, and an attempt to reboot the initiative, like with Solid (https://github.com/solid/solid with Tim Berners Lee behind it, i believe)

also 'semantic web' has become a bit of a loaded term.. 'linked open data' is now more commonly used (though this is a broader defined concept).

--> i don't think blockchain will be web 3.0 (or higher version numbers for that matter)

Web 3.0/4.0 might be The Decentralized Web, though

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