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Bittorent Inc. Working on a Distributed Browser: Maelstrom

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday December 11 2014, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the port-in-the-storm dept.

Marneus68 writes:

After the recent launch of Bittorent Sync and the Bittorent Bleep, Bittorent Inc. is reportedly working on a distributed web browser called Maelstrom.

The project that aims to "power a new way for web content to be published, accessed and consumed" is in alpha and only accessible with an invite.

While very interesting, this project raises many questions. How is this "distributed web browser" made? Is the DNS lookup distributed among users too? Is this going to become a new protocol and is it going to be open?

Sadly, if you're not on the alpha there's not much you can deduce from the little blurb on their blog.

Is anyone on Soylent News on the alpha yet? Anyone tried to do a bit of tinkering to see how it works?

The full announcement available here. Additional coverage can be found here and here.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12 2014, @06:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12 2014, @06:55AM (#125391)

    Sounds like you are proposing Freenet. Its 14 years old and still active. Just use FProxy: run freenet, and point your browser at it and you get a nice DHT based world wide web in all its censor resistance distributed HTML glory. I haven't used it, but it defiantly already exists.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday December 12 2014, @07:01AM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday December 12 2014, @07:01AM (#125393) Journal

    defiantly already exists.

    Its been giving the authorities the finger for years!

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    • (Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Saturday December 13 2014, @12:00AM

      by pnkwarhall (4558) on Saturday December 13 2014, @12:00AM (#125640)

      Its been giving the authorities the finger for years!

      veeeeeeeery slowly.

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