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Over the last three years, we've seen a lot of movement around what people are referring to as the "Decentralized" or "Distributed" Web. It's often accompanied by words like "blockchain", "cryptocurrency", "content-addressability", "P2P" (peer-to-peer), "torrents", "mesh", and protocols/implementations like ipfs, dat, secure scuttlebutt, gun, and solid. What's the deal? In the 1960's, 20 years before the Internet even existed, Ted Nelson was presciently describing a system called Xanadu which featured unbreakable bi-directional hypertext links, version controlled documents which supported incremental publishing, and side-by-side document comparison. By 1991, when Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, only a subset of his and Ted's ideas made it mainstream. Now, after 25+ years of learnings, its become clear we didn't get everything perfectly the first time around. Some of these compromises and shorcomings were imposed on us through limitations in technology. Advancements in cryp

Decentralization to Centralize Human Thought & Universalize Access to Knowledge 5:30p 2015-11-30 Mon Read original post on Facebook Abstract Over the last three years, we've seen a lot of movement around what people are referring to as the "Decentralized" or "Distributed" Web. It's often accompanied by words like "blockchain", "cryptocurrency", "content-addressability", "P2P" (peer-to-peer), "torrents", "mesh", and protocols/implementations like ipfs , dat , secure scuttlebutt , gun , and solid . What's the deal? In the 1960's, 20 years before the Internet even existed, Ted Nelson was prescien

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