The guy who built the world wide web doesn't like what it has become and is building an alternative

[Anonymous]

If this happens, I am done with the tradional internet. But, big tech are the biggest, greediest companies in the world. They also control the incoming US government. I can't see this getting off the ground.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know Tim Berners-Lee is a pretty important dude in the technology world. He's the father of the Internet, responsible for the birth of the World Wide Web as we know it.



And he hates what it has become. So he's taking some action to fix it.



You see, for years now Berners-Lee has expressed his distaste at how major corporations have taken what was supposed to be a free environment and placed restrictions on it. He doesn't like how groups like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have effectively centralized the Internet, nor how they control people's data. So he's instead working on a new platform and startup that's declaring war on Big Tech.



"The intent is world domination," he says.

Inrupt is built on the 'Solid' platform, something he and others at MIT have been working on for years. Solid is basically designed to be like the early days of the Internet, wild and free, and Inrupt will be the way to access it, at least to start. In a demonstration for the piece, he pulled up what looked like a very basic browser page, completely barebones. Part of an app built for his personal use, it displays his calendar, address book, chats, his music etc. It's like if you combined Google Drive with WhatsApp, Spotify, and pretty much every piece of cloud storage and online connectivity you use today, all in one place. The difference here is that all the information is under his control.



Taking back the Internet

The basic idea is that each user is assigned a Solid ID and Solid pod when they first come online on the platform, that can be hosted wherever you want. Pod here stands for personal data store, which is what it does. Instead of apps like Google Drive, where your data is stored on the company's server and therefore subject to their data harvesting. On Solid however, all your data exists in your Solid pod. When an app requests access, Solid will authenticate and  then you can choose to give it access to your pod.

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html?fbclid=IwAR2h-oYPGm9eCQqTyyLuDzgdpz_buNYej5W480uy9_GE2xJEMp2HqEma2fs">https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/n ... p2HqEma2fs">https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html?fbclid=IwAR2h-oYPGm9eCQqTyyLuDzgdpz_buNYej5W480uy9_GE2xJEMp2HqEma2fs

[Anonymous]

Sign me up.

[Anonymous]

If this happens, I am done with the tradional internet. But, big tech are the biggest, greediest companies in the world. They also control the incoming US government. I can't see this getting off the ground.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know Tim Berners-Lee is a pretty important dude in the technology world. He's the father of the Internet, responsible for the birth of the World Wide Web as we know it.



And he hates what it has become. So he's taking some action to fix it.



You see, for years now Berners-Lee has expressed his distaste at how major corporations have taken what was supposed to be a free environment and placed restrictions on it. He doesn't like how groups like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have effectively centralized the Internet, nor how they control people's data. So he's instead working on a new platform and startup that's declaring war on Big Tech.



"The intent is world domination," he says.

Inrupt is built on the 'Solid' platform, something he and others at MIT have been working on for years. Solid is basically designed to be like the early days of the Internet, wild and free, and Inrupt will be the way to access it, at least to start. In a demonstration for the piece, he pulled up what looked like a very basic browser page, completely barebones. Part of an app built for his personal use, it displays his calendar, address book, chats, his music etc. It's like if you combined Google Drive with WhatsApp, Spotify, and pretty much every piece of cloud storage and online connectivity you use today, all in one place. The difference here is that all the information is under his control.



Taking back the Internet

The basic idea is that each user is assigned a Solid ID and Solid pod when they first come online on the platform, that can be hosted wherever you want. Pod here stands for personal data store, which is what it does. Instead of apps like Google Drive, where your data is stored on the company's server and therefore subject to their data harvesting. On Solid however, all your data exists in your Solid pod. When an app requests access, Solid will authenticate and  then you can choose to give it access to your pod.

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html?fbclid=IwAR2h-oYPGm9eCQqTyyLuDzgdpz_buNYej5W480uy9_GE2xJEMp2HqEma2fs">https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/n ... p2HqEma2fs">https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html?fbclid=IwAR2h-oYPGm9eCQqTyyLuDzgdpz_buNYej5W480uy9_GE2xJEMp2HqEma2fs

You mean Al Gore didn't invent the internet.

 

[Frood]

Al Gore may have invented gross hypocrisy...

[Anonymous]

If this happens, I am done with the tradional internet. But, big tech are the biggest, greediest companies in the world. They also control the incoming US government. I can't see this getting off the ground.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know Tim Berners-Lee is a pretty important dude in the technology world. He's the father of the Internet, responsible for the birth of the World Wide Web as we know it.



And he hates what it has become. So he's taking some action to fix it.



You see, for years now Berners-Lee has expressed his distaste at how major corporations have taken what was supposed to be a free environment and placed restrictions on it. He doesn't like how groups like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have effectively centralized the Internet, nor how they control people's data. So he's instead working on a new platform and startup that's declaring war on Big Tech.



"The intent is world domination," he says.

Inrupt is built on the 'Solid' platform, something he and others at MIT have been working on for years. Solid is basically designed to be like the early days of the Internet, wild and free, and Inrupt will be the way to access it, at least to start. In a demonstration for the piece, he pulled up what looked like a very basic browser page, completely barebones. Part of an app built for his personal use, it displays his calendar, address book, chats, his music etc. It's like if you combined Google Drive with WhatsApp, Spotify, and pretty much every piece of cloud storage and online connectivity you use today, all in one place. The difference here is that all the information is under his control.



Taking back the Internet

The basic idea is that each user is assigned a Solid ID and Solid pod when they first come online on the platform, that can be hosted wherever you want. Pod here stands for personal data store, which is what it does. Instead of apps like Google Drive, where your data is stored on the company's server and therefore subject to their data harvesting. On Solid however, all your data exists in your Solid pod. When an app requests access, Solid will authenticate and  then you can choose to give it access to your pod.

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html?fbclid=IwAR2h-oYPGm9eCQqTyyLuDzgdpz_buNYej5W480uy9_GE2xJEMp2HqEma2fs">https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/n ... p2HqEma2fs">https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html?fbclid=IwAR2h-oYPGm9eCQqTyyLuDzgdpz_buNYej5W480uy9_GE2xJEMp2HqEma2fs

Good luck to him because he will need it along with an act of God to break the big tech monopoly.

[cc]

You mean Al Gore didn't invent the internet.

 

Dang!!! U beat me to it  



 ac_smile

[Anonymous]

You mean Al Gore didn't invent the internet.

 

Dang!!! U beat me to it  



 ac_smile

cc, hyperbole is part of American politics, but that statement from Al Gore was over the top even by American standards.

[cc]

It does hold the record to date



That record will be in daily danger of being smashed with SlowJo in office

[Anonymous]

Parler Sues Amazon, Asks Court to Reinstate Platform



Social media company Parler sued Amazon on Monday, alleging that the Seattle-based firm's hosting service violated anti-trust laws and their contractual agreement.



The company, which was taken offline by Amazon's services early Monday morning, asked a federal judge in Washington state to reject Amazon's shutdown of its services.



Parler argued that Amazon's move was "motivated by political animus" and designed to reduce competition to benefit Twitter. Twitter is a customer of Amazon Web Services' division.



The emergency order asked a judge to reject Amazon's shutdown of Parler's account and said it is akin to "pulling the plug on a hospital patient on life support."



Amazon "will kill Parler's business—at the very time it is set to skyrocket," Parler's complaint said.



"When Twitter announced two evenings ago that it was permanently banning President Trump from its platform, conservative users began to flee Twitter en masse for Parler. The exodus was so large that the next day, yesterday, Parler became the number one free app downloaded from Apple's App Store," the lawsuit reads.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/parler-sues-amazon-asks-washington-court-to-reinstate-platform_3652177.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-11-3">https://www.theepochtimes.com/parler-su ... 21-01-11-3">https://www.theepochtimes.com/parler-sues-amazon-asks-washington-court-to-reinstate-platform_3652177.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-11-3