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It's an idea as old as Xanadu, which predates the web by decades: http://www.xanadu.com/ http://www.xanadu.com/ But see also: - BitTorrent's Project Maelstro
by bascule 11y ago
It's an idea as old as Xanadu, which predates the web by decades:
http://www.xanadu.com/ http://www.xanadu.com/
But see also:
- BitTorrent's Project Maelstrom
- GNUnet
- Tahoe-LAFS
- MaidSafe
- MojoNation, the technology that inspired BitTorrent
...just to name a few.
The problem with these systems is they don't provide a whole lot of compelling benefits over the regular web, and generally provide a worse user experience.
Solving the UX problem is the real hurdle to adoption.
- david_ar 11y agoSee https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues for comparisons to existing systems. The plan is for IPFS to be able to transparently integrate with the existing web, e.g. https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
- chmike 11y agoThis system looks overly complex. Too many components, too many protocols, ... It will be hard to maintain as source code, and it will be a brittle infrastructure.