(This Article First Appeared In The Forbes On May 20, 2023)
Fun fact: If Apple had not fired Steve Jobs in 1985, we may not have seen Web or Web3 today. Jobs founded NeXT Computer after he was sacked from Apple. In 1989, he sold one NeXT machine to a computer scientist working at CERN, the European organisation for nuclear research. This move would forever change the world. Tim Berners-Lee invented World Wide Web (WWW) using this machine, and it became the world’s first web server and ran the first web browser. The main purpose of Web 1.0 was to share information—it was read-only and excluded a large portion of the population as it was difficult to use…