Re-inventing the web

[Ethan Waldo]

At least 2 years in the making since first public commit and 483 open issues.  The project has definitely moved past the technology triggers stage and has done well moving in to the peak of inflated expectations by garnering a NYT article.  How it will survive through its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle will be interesting to watch.

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From: kf4hcw <kf4hcw at lifeatwarp9.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 11:48:49 PM
To: Ethan Waldo; tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: Re-inventing the web

On 06/09/2016 10:58 PM, Ethan Waldo wrote:
> I was rolling my eyes until

It still has a long way to go I think, but it is picking up steam and
it's solid enough right now for a lot of experimentation... maybe just
shy of production _IF_ you can implement what you want with what is
already baked in.

The biggest problems I see with it at the moment is that there's no good
ways to deal with:

* Dynamic data and/or revocation. (It's technically possible with IPNS,
but not nearly good enough yet)

* Search. There simply is no mechanism searching IPFS for content right
now. I remember the days before search engines. Search engines are _the
killer app_ for the web ... be it old broken joint http or new IPFS hotness.

I'm sure these things are coming ... there are a lot of folks out there
who _REALLY_ want this to work for lots of good reasons.

_M

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