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    Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web

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    Inventor of world wide web invents new web?


    The following report is not specific about how it works, but I can tell people the only way an alt web would ever work

    -An alt web would have no central servers, your computer itself would be a web site anyone could hit. If you could type up a report, put it on your public area and have it go out like a web page directly off your own computer it could not be censored.

    The problem? Limited local resources. Most people do not have enough local bandwidth to serve like a normal web site.
    This site always serves over 20 million files a month, and though most computers nowadays could probably handle that if they were dedicated to the job, I don't think there are any ISP's that would be too friendly about it. So that's the problem.
    The good side of this however is that when anything went viral, it really would go viral because millions of individual computers would be in on the job and Faceplant, Google, or even Spamhaus could not stop it. So with that in mind, here's an interesting report:

    Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web


    With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it's game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.


    Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It's a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads us into a sparse conference room. At one end of a long table is a battered laptop covered with stickers. Here, on this computer, he is working on a plan to radically alter how all of us live and work on the web."The intent is world domination," Berners-Lee says with a wry smile.

    The British-born scientist is known for his dry sense of humor. But in this case, he is not joking.

    This week, Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it.
    In other words, it's game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon. For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over.

    "We have to do it now," he says, displaying an intensity and urgency that is uncharacteristic for this soft-spoken academic. "It"s a historical moment."

    Ever since revelations emerged that Facebook had allowed people's data to be misused by political operatives, Berners-Lee has felt an imperative to get this digital idyll into the real world.
    In a post published this weekend, Berners-Lee explains that he is taking a sabbatical from MIT to work full time on Inrupt. The company will be the first major commercial venture built off of Solid, a decentralized web platform he and others at MIT have spent years building.

    A NETSCAPE FOR TODAY'S INTERNET
    If all goes as planned, Inrupt will be to Solid what Netscape once was for many first-time users of the web: an easy way in. And like with Netscape, Berners-Lee hopes Inrupt will be just the first of many companies to emerge from Solid.

    "I have been imagining this for a very long time," says Berners-Lee. He opens up his laptop and starts tapping at his keyboard. Watching the inventor of the web work at his computer feels like what it might have been like to watch Beethoven compose a symphony: It's riveting but hard to fully grasp. "We are in the Solid world now," he says, his eyes lit up with excitement. He pushes the laptop toward me so I too can see.

    On his screen, there is a simple-looking web page with tabs across the top: Tim's to-do list, his calendar, chats, address book. He built this app–one of the first on Solid–for his personal use. It is simple, spare. In fact, it's so plain that, at first glance, it's hard to see its significance. But to Berners-Lee, this is where the revolution begins. The app, using Solid's decentralized technology, allows Berners-Lee to access all of his data seamlessly-his calendar, his music library, videos, chat, research. It's like a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.

    The difference here is that, on Solid, all the information is under his control. Every bit of data he creates or adds on Solid exists within a Solid pod-which is an acronym for personal online data store. These pods are what give Solid users control over their applications and information on the web. Anyone using the platform will get a Solid identity and Solid pod. This is how people, Berners-Lee says, will take back the power of the web from corporations.

    There is more to this report here.
    If this is to succeed, people will have to know about it. Spread the word.






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