Having URI types that are content-centric rather than location-centric has been typical of P2P networks for over a decade... but web browser support has been sp

Having URI types that are content-centric rather than location-centric has been typical of P2P networks for over a decade... but web browser support has been spotty. (It's sometimes been faked via a localhost HTTP proxy.) A new chance for this to change soon may be come alongside the forthcoming browser-to-browser connectivity standards under the heading "WebRTC". Then you won't just have to hope a matching file might be in your local cache... you can cooperate with other nearby nodes to find reliable replicas (like the P2P networks do), triggered by a content-hash-specifying URI scheme.