1. What was Web 1.0?
Web 1.0 was static websites with text, images and links to share information.
2. What is a smart contract?
A smart contract can control/handle money and will only do what it is programmed to do. Therefore if you program it to give money to your child if they get good grades, the only way to get your money back to you in a trustless way is to have your kid fail their classes otherwise your child will receive the money into their crypto wallet as the smart contract will read the grades and give the money to the child. A smart contract has unstoppable TXās, is trustless and is transparent requiring no middle men and is coded in solidity.
3. How is transparency achieved with ethereum code?
Ethereum is used on a blockchain. Blockchain is a public ledger that anyone can look at online and read all the code themselves.