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Whenever I see another L2 or L3, I always think about the early internet when it was a bunch of private networks that were not linked up.

If history is a lesson, would that imply that there will be one that will emerge as the "winner"?

Where is my thought process going wrong?

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Ah this is pretty helpful for me - ty

But one thing is that each new L2/L3 advertises itself as a new place to X activity to thrive, which I feel like is different from the internet? Unless L2/L3's are like FANG with their own apps layers.

Like overall, the internet appeared fragmented from user side early on and now L2/L3's seem fragmented from user side. I suppose I'm saying will something unify all the layers eventually so that users won't realize there's a difference in underlying tech? 

idk if my question make sense

It's very probable that user experience tends toward making them think there's only one network but it may be the same as the internet. The common protocols makes it possible to interact with all the networks the same way but it's actually very fragmented: many hardware techs, many connections providers, many software protocols implementation, some protocols running in parallel, some taking time to get deprecated and majority usage driving them. I don't really see The Internet as one thing. It's what users see, but that's an illusion. It's the same for crypto.

I'd like to see interoperability amongst the layer 3s

This is in assuming that centralization or a “winner-takes-all” outcome is inevitable. The blockchain space is more likely to resemble a web of modular networks where different L2s and L3s coexist and work together to scale the ecosystem as a whole. Similar to how tcp/ip did so for web 2