🌐 What is Web1 – Web2 – Web3?

Easy to understand explanation for beginners, no tech, no headache 😅

Many brothers entering the crypto market often hear "Web3", such as Web3 wallet, Web3 app... But what is Web1 or Web2? How is Web3 related to blockchain?

Read this article to understand from the beginning to the end - as easy as eating pho 🍜

🧱 Web1 – Early Internet (1990s – 2000s)

👉 Can only read, no comments, no posting.

👉 Website is like a newspaper - one-way content.

❌ No interaction, no account creation.

📌 Simply put: The Internet is just a TV that can type.

📱 Web2 – The explosive social network (2005 – present)

👉 Users can read – write – share – livestream

👉 Create content on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube…

🔒 But the data belongs to the platform, not you.

❌ Accounts can be locked, posts deleted, data sold at any time.

📌 In other words: You are building a house on someone else's land.

🚀 Web3 – The Internet of ownership (from 2020 onwards)

✅ Based on blockchain – decentralized

✅ You own your own data and assets

💼 Can:

- Own tokens, NFTs

- Log in with Web3 wallet (MetaMask, OKX Wallet…)

- Play games to receive digital assets

- Participate in DAO – build projects together

📌 Now: You build a house on your own land.

💡 Summary:

- Web1: Read only 📖

- Web2: Read + write ✍️

- Web3: Read + write + own 🗝️