Imagine This: A Web Without Servers

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Claim: running servers locks most people out of publishing, so a peer-to-peer web offers a practical alternative. The demo builds and deploys a site from the browser using the Beaker browser and the Dat protocol, shows one-click publishing, live editing via view-source, and mapping a dat URL to a DNS txt record. Examples include Fritter (a peer-to-peer social app) running with user data-as-files, references to GeoCities’ 38 million lost sites, and the context of three billion internet users.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:32Servers suck
3. 10:19BitTorrent
4. 17:41One-click publishing 2. Supercharged View Source 3. New Web APIs

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