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It's an idea as old as Xanadu, which predates the web by decades:

http://www.xanadu.com/

But see also:

- BitTorrent's Project Maelstrom

- GNUnet

- Tahoe-LAFS

- MaidSafe

- MojoNation, the technology that inspired BitTorrent

...just to name a few.

The problem with these systems is they don't provide a whole lot of compelling benefits over the regular web, and generally provide a worse user experience.

Solving the UX problem is the real hurdle to adoption.



See https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues for comparisons to existing systems. The plan is for IPFS to be able to transparently integrate with the existing web, e.g. https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js


This system looks overly complex. Too many components, too many protocols, ... It will be hard to maintain as source code, and it will be a brittle infrastructure.




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