It's Time to Reinvent the Web, Without the Internet

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Argues for a peer-to-peer, offline-first web using the Dat protocol and Beaker browser, shows a working decentralized Twitter clone called chirper decentralized Twitter clone that stores posts as files in a per-site archive, seeds via hyperswarm discovery, and exposes a sandboxed filesystem API in the browser. Demonstration publishes and syncs messages in real time, loads the latest 150 posts per profile, and recommends supernodes or Hashbase for wider availability when peers are scarce.

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1. 0:00Introduction and welcome
2. 0:48The problem with today's web
3. 3:16Internet freedom and censorship
4. 5:47Centralized platforms vs open web
5. 7:18Offline-first peer-to-peer software
6. 9:52Mesh networks for offline communities
7. 11:57Data protocol and peer-to-peer basics
8. 14:31Demo of Beaker browser
9. 17:21Demo of Chirper decentralized Twitter
10. 21:40Conclusion and Q&A

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