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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. IPFS? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 2

    If Slashdot taught me anything about acronyms, surely IPFS means "Internet Protocol First Shooter".

  2. But what does IPFS mean? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 5, Informative

    InterPlanetary File System

    There, I did part of Soulskill's job. Where's my check?

    1. Re:But what does IPFS mean? by NotInHere · · Score: 2

      Is your username an IPFS peer id?

  3. 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

    1. Re:Freenet? by SuricouRaven · · Score: 2

      Freenet includes a lot of privacy measures. This comes with a severe performance cost, so it's slow and painful to use.

  4. For a second there... by Dusthead+Jr. · · Score: 5, Funny

    For a second i thought they were bringing GeoCities back.

    1. Re:For a second there... by Tablizer · · Score: 2

      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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  5. 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.

    1. Re:Freenet-- by SuricouRaven · · Score: 2

      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.

  6. Re:Buzzwords galore! by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

    Holy crap....if you played "Buzzword Bingo" with that paragraph, everyone in the Western Hemisphere would be drunk.

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  7. Re:So.. it's like freenet by SuricouRaven · · Score: 2

    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.