Beaker Browser and the peer-to-peer Web: Why? How? And what’s next? Tara Vancil 2018-10-20 NodeConf Argentina
Tara Vancil The Web, nail art, Beyoncé - taravancil.com - beakerbrowser.com @taravancil / taravancil.com
Beaker is an experimental browser beakerbrowser.com @taravancil / taravancil.com
? r e s w o r B r e k a e B peer-to-peer Web??
1. What’s the peer-to-peer Web? 2. Why build a new browser? 3. What’s next? @taravancil / taravancil.com
1. What’s the peer-to-peer Web? @taravancil / taravancil.com
1. What’s the peer-to-peer Web? @taravancil / taravancil.com
A standardized set of tools for transmitting and interacting with documents
Standards and technologies for using hypertext
A bizarre miracle of human cooperation
The Web is humanity’s shared language codepen.io/yuanchuan
The Web is humanity’s language for creating and sharing stuff. @taravancil / taravancil.com
mywebsite.com Hello, world! mywebsite.com Hello, world! Hello, world! index.html <html> Hello, world! </html> mywebsite.com Hello, world!
AWS, Google Cloud, Web Azure, Heroku, etc. <html> Hello, world! </html> <html> my friend me Hello, world! </html> @taravancil / taravancil.com
The peer-to-peer Web is the Web @taravancil / taravancil.com
Peer-to-peer Web my friend me <html> Hello, world! </html> @taravancil / taravancil.com
Peer-to-peer Web me <html> Hello, world! my friend </html> <html> Hello, world! </html> @taravancil / taravancil.com
What happens if you put a peer-to-peer protocol in the browser? p2p://mywebsite.com Hello, world!
2. Why build a new browser? @taravancil / taravancil.com
@mafintosh @pfrazee l i c n a v a r a t @
I <3 the Web codepen.io/yuanchuan
The Web is imperfect, (and that’s ok!) @taravancil / taravancil.com
WorldWideWeb.app (first browser) 1990 2018 28 years
The Web is imperfect How will we shape the next 30 years? @taravancil / taravancil.com
Servers suck codepen.io/yuanchuan
1994 2000 2006 2012 2018
neocities.org glitch.com
Publishing is core to the Web’s ethos. How can we equalize access for the long term? @taravancil / taravancil.com
The Web is imperfect How will we shape the next 30 years? @taravancil / taravancil.com
3. What’s next? @taravancil / taravancil.com
What’s next? ● Beaker will keep experimenting ● Maybe other browsers will too? @taravancil / taravancil.com
Firefox whitelisted 3 peer-to-peer protocols
Thank you! ● beakerbrowser.com/install ● taravancil.com/slides ● dat://p2p.taravancil.com @taravancil / taravancil.com
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