Exploring the peer-to-peer Web

Tara Vancil

Join the <A HREF="https://beakerbrowser.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beaker Browser</A> team for an evening of discussion about the Web, peer-to-peer protocols, and the joining of the two.
6-6:30pm Eat, drink, and be merry 
6:30-6:45pm <A HREF="https://twitter.com/taravancil" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tara Vancil </A> will give an overview of the peer-to-peer Web and what problems it aims to address. 
6:45-7pm Beaker demo by <A HREF="https://twitter.com/pfrazee" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Paul Frazee</A> 
7-7:30pm User demos
7:30-8pm Open discussion and Q&A
 
About the peer-to-peer Web
The Web platform was designed to create an open commons, where anyone can publish without permission. But as publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have become more powerful and convenient, independent publishing has lost its appeal, and an alarming amount of content on the Web is published on centralized platforms.
The peer-to-peer Web is an effort to reclaim the decentralized, open, and collaborative nature of the Web, by using peer-to-peer protocols as the Web's transport layer. Using a peer-to-peer protocol on the Web makes it practical for any user to self-host websites, and for developers to build applications without maintaining a central data store of user profiles and content.
 
About the Beaker Browser
<A HREF="https://beakerbrowser.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beaker</A> is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser that implements <A HREF="https://datproject.org" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dat</A>, a peer-to-peer protocol, as a new way to browse and publish websites and applications.
In addition to making dat:// websites browse-able, Beaker introduces <A HREF="https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/apis" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">new Web APIs</A> for writing to dat:// websites, and for building peer-to-peer applications.
Beaker's mission is to build the Web platform we think ought to exist, prioritizing user privacy, creativity, and open collaboration.

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