Johan Bové

Dave Mills was known as Father Time as one of the people behind the NTP, or Internet time protocol 

World Possible develops technology solutions and supports social entrepreneurs who help bridge the digital divide in communities that lack internet. We believe every person on earth should have access to world-class educational content and it is our aim to get those to them.

Resolution recognizing the irreplaceable public value of libraries, including online
libraries like the Internet Archive, and the essential rights of all libraries to own,
preserve, and lend both digital and print books to the residents of San Francisco and
the wider public; supporting the Internet Archive and its public service mission; and
urging the California State Legislature and the United States Congress to support
digital rights for libraries, including controlled digital lending and the option for
libraries to own their digital collections.

Also at https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37367405

Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the web can also be modified, moved, or entirely disappeared. This often-irreversible decay of web content is commonly known as linkrot. It comes with a similar problem of content drift, or the often-unannounced changes––retractions, additions, replacement––to the content at a particular URL. 

The World Wide Web started with so much promise: to connect people across any distance, to allow anyone to become a publisher, and to democratize access to knowledge. However, today the Web seems to be failing us. It’s not private, secure, or unifying. The Internet has, in large part, ended up centralizing access and power in the hands of a few dominant platforms.

But what if we could build something better, what some are calling the decentralized web?

In this series of six workshops, METRO will be joined by our partners at Internet Archive, DWeb, and Library Futures to explore the ways in which moving to decentralized technologies may enhance your privacy, empower you to control your own data, and resist censorship:

 

Videos from the Dweb meetups on Internet Archive

DWeb connects the people, projects and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is more private, reliable, secure and open. A web with many winners—returning to the original vision of the World Wide Web and internet.

Let us explore IPFS through an example. At present, we use the combination “https://www” plus an address to find information on the internet. This is a location-based system. decentralization, internet, ipfs, syndicated, tech, web