Neocities Becomes the First Major Site To Implement the Distributed Web 51
An anonymous reader writes: HTTP has served us well for a long time, but will we continue to use HTTP forever? Since Brewster Kahle called for a distributed web, more people have been experimenting with what is being called the Permanent Web: Web sites that can be federated instantly, and served from trustless peers. Popular web hosting site Neocities has announced that they are the first major site to implement IPFS, which is the leading distributed web protocol, and they published the announcement using IPFS itself.
whats old is new again... (Score:1)
I remember when this was called NNTP...
Buzzwords galore! (Score:1)
I just viewed https://ipfs.io/ and it has a section that I think is rife with buzzwords. I've emphasized the ones I can see:
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Holy crap....if you played "Buzzword Bingo" with that paragraph, everyone in the Western Hemisphere would be drunk.
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I felt like I was reading a description for a VX Module.
Shit, maybe I was, because I'm pretty sure VX Modules can be amalgamated to handle distributed tasks without concurrency constraints.
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I felt like I was reading a description for a VX Module.
Even a VX Module has a clearer distributed mode interface description than that.
Shit, maybe I was, because I'm pretty sure VX Modules can be amalgamated to handle distributed tasks without concurrency constraints.
I'm waiting for some intrepid soul to write a VX Module to manage systemd interactivity with the Ring 0 processes. Just imagine the performance scalability impact in holistically-generated vertical markets.
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I didn't get the joke at first (Score:2)
IPFS? (Score:3)
But what does IPFS mean? (Score:5, Informative)
InterPlanetary File System
There, I did part of Soulskill's job. Where's my check?
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Is your username an IPFS peer id?
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His username is actually also his password hash, and his password hash is his username. It's like the circle of life.
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InterPlanetary File System
There, I did part of Soulskill's job. Where's my check?
You tight bastard.
You're gone to the restroom every time there's a check to be picked up.
I know (Score:2)
that a certain amount of story-lag is to be expected on slashdot... but c'mon - twenty years?!
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Beverly+Hills+Internet,+builder+of+interactive+cyber+cities,+launches...-a017190114 [thefreelibrary.com]
"federated"? (Score:1)
Um, what?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Freenet? (Score:2, Interesting)
How is this different from Freenet? (Which has existed for over 15 years!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet [wikipedia.org]
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Freenet includes a lot of privacy measures. This comes with a severe performance cost, so it's slow and painful to use.
For a second there... (Score:5, Funny)
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Looking at the sites, I think they have...
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If Yahoo played their cards right, Geocities could have been what Facebook and Blogger is. It was the first big "instant amateur site" system. They had the audience. But, their content editors were crappy. (I hand coded my Geocities pages, which is one up-side, as an option.)
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That is, explicitly, what Neocities is, and has been since the beginning. This is just them experimenting with a new technology that furthers the mission of everyone having their own web space.
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Same here. :/
Freenet-- (Score:5, Interesting)
This seems an awful lot like the Freenet project [freenetproject.org], minus attempting to guarantee anonymity or plausible deniability. It is definitely interesting if it takes off as it would be nice to have a global public DHT-based CDN, but seeing that Freenet was around in beta for in the late 90's, this is nothing particularly new.
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Freenet attempts to provide an extreme level of privacy, resistant to all forms of monitoring and censorship. Useful features, but they come with severe performance costs. Freenet is slow.
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Or perhaps the author doesn't think much of an "open source" project, owned and controlled by a single for-profit entity which operates a proprietary-relicensing model, and hence requires copyright assignment from any contributions.
Re: SAFE Network aka Secure Access For Everyone (Score:1)
Ohhhhhhh BURN!
The first wiki trying it also (Score:1)
The first public wiki, the Wiki Wiki Web* founded by Ward Cunningham which covers soft. eng. philosophy, is trying to go "Federated", but so far users are confused up the wazoo.
A determined "grammar vandal" mucked up the original wiki such that they had to rush out the federated one faster than planned.
Related links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki [c2.com]
http://c2.fed.wiki.org/view/we... [wiki.org]
* Sometimes known as the "Portland Pattern Repository"
.io (Score:1)
3rd rule of the internet:
if a project is hosted on a tld-flavor-of-the-month, it will ultimately fail.
Irony (Score:2)
They are talking about making content available everywhere forever.
The IPFS article links to a YouTube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] ) which 'the uploader did not make available to your country'.
Well, that's funny, because the video isn't their original content. The content was produced in my country by a public broadcaster (aka publicly funded TV).
IPFS doesn't exist according to Wikipedia (Score:1)
Yea... Hype train avoided. Search wikipedia for ipfs and I get:
The page "Ipfs" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.
Not covered in the first 20 suggestions.
Been there, done that (Score:1)
Sounds much like a project I was working on a couple of years ago. An distributed filsystem where everyone running a daemon could drop files into a pool (ocean) and the files was moved around as fixed size blocks/chunks. Automatically replicated so there was always 3-4 copies of each block/chunk available on different nodes to maintain full redundancy and resiliency if nodes was disconnected or disappeared.
So.. it's like freenet (Score:1)
So it's like freenet without the focus on anonymity.
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And potentially much better performance. Freenet's heavy focus on anonymity and censorship-resistance comes with performance compromises. Similar concepts, but designed for different applications.