Building and browsing the peer-to-peer web with the Beaker browser

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An experimental browser puts a peer-to-peer protocol (dat) into a Chromium-like UI so websites deploy with one-click deploy and no central server, files are editable in-browser or via your editor with live reloading, and a dat archive API lets scripts read and write files directly. A demo app called fritter separates user data from the app so profiles and posts stay portable, and recent browser moves (Firefox whitelisting peer protocols ipfs secure scuttlebutt) show the approach actually gains adoption.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:502. Why build a new browser?
3. 2:07What's the peer-to-peer Web?
4. 2:59The Web is humanity's shared language
5. 5:46BitTorrent

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