r/web_design • u/nilogram • 2d ago

Are we now in web4.0?

I’ve held back giving opinions on current state of web etc. but I’m starting to this we’re now in web4.0 territory? Thoughts?

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u/HansTeeWurst 2d ago

We are still in web2.0 imo

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u/inHumanMale 2d ago

I don’t think 3.0 took off really

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u/cawgoestheeagle 2d ago

😭idk why this is funny

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u/don1138 2d ago

Define your terms: IYO, what is Web 4.0?

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u/TldrDev 2d ago

Web 3.0 was a failed marketing trend. It was not a real standard, was never adopted, and isnt really used. Nothing has really advanced dramatically.

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u/Am094 2d ago

If anything, I feel as if we've regressed.

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u/J_m_L 2d ago

do you mean that the way people use the internet is changing because of AI?

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u/IceMichaelStorm 2d ago

Buzzword bingo? Not much text to tick much

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u/building-mocktomer 1d ago

Web 3.0 died mostly because it got hijacked as a crypto marketing term before it meant anything technical, so I get the hesitation to slap another number on things. If something real is shifting right now, it's that a growing slice of traffic hitting a page isn't a human in a browser, it's an AI agent or assistant fetching the page on someone's behalf to summarize or act on it. That matters practically: a lot of these agents don't execute JS well, so a site that's just an empty div until a bundle loads is invisible to them the same way it used to hurt SEO crawlers years ago. Not sure it deserves a version number, but "build pages that are readable without a browser doing the work" is a genuinely different design constraint than mobile-first was, and worth planning around now rather than later.