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Neocities Becomes the First Major Site To Implement the Distributed Web

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-cat's-blog-doesn't-count dept.

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.

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  1. Freenet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is this different from Freenet? (Which has existed for over 15 years!)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

  2. Freenet-- by flink · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This seems an awful lot like the Freenet project, 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.