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
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@taravancil / taravancil.com Beaker is an experimental browser
beakerbrowser.com
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Beaker Browser?
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 index.html Hello, world!
Hello, world! mywebsite.com Hello, world! AWS, Google Cloud, Web Azure, Heroku, etc.
Hello, world!
me Hello, world! my friend
@taravancil / taravancil.com The peer-to-peer Web is the Web
@taravancil / taravancil.com Peer-to-peer Web
me my friend Hello, world!
@taravancil / taravancil.com Peer-to-peer Web
me Hello, world! my friend
Hello, world!
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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
@taravancil I <3 the Web
codepen.io/yuanchuan The Web is imperfect, (and that’s ok!)
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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
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