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There's already a quite large distributed "HTTP" being used everyday: BitTorrent's DHT network. URIs are just the keys of the distributed hash table. Keys are a
by sktrdie 11y ago
There's already a quite large distributed "HTTP" being used everyday: BitTorrent's DHT network. URIs are just the keys of the distributed hash table. Keys are also mutable so one can change the content stored at specific keys. Right now it's being used to serve very large files and not HTML/CSS/JS files. Things like Project Maelstrom are a step in the right direction.
Problem is that it's hard to find things, just like it was hard when the Web started. There are opportunities for the next "google" of this new DHT space.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoI'm curious if Cloudflare takes the torch on this, considering their acumen at running a CDN.
- Torgo 11y agoIs there a description of how maelstrom holds references in the DHT? I can think of half a dozen ways to bolt HTTP hosting on bittorrent, but the scale of "people using http" is orders of magnitude larger than "people who use bittorrent".