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Ja - 25-jarig bestaan van het Internet c.q. het Web:

Tim Berners-Lee links, Vint Cerf rechts. Zit in een 35 min.-documentaire van Jessica Yu:

ForEveryone.net

ForEveryone.net connects the future of the web with the little-known story of its birth. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet – creating the world wide web.

Krijg je tranen van in je ogen, ik dan, ondanks de wel een beetje oud-dametje-helpen-oversteken toon:

33-year-old computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web and his visionary decision to make it a free and accessible resource sparked a global revolution in communication. Tim has declared internet access a human right and has called for an “Online Magna Carta” to protect privacy and free speech, extend connectivity to populations without access and maintain “one web” for all. Tim’s dramatic story poses the question: will we fight for the web we want or let it be taken away?

No Starch Press - TCP/IP Guide over het verschil tussen het “internet” en “Internet” van de beide mannen:

KEY CONCEPT   The generic noun internet is a short form for the word internetwork, while the
proper noun Internet refers to the global internetwork of TCP/IP networks that we all know and
use.

Proper noun:

The Internet is defined not just as the computers that are connected to each other around the world, but as the set of services and features that it offers. More than that, the Internet defines a specific way of doing things, of sharing information and resources between people and companies. And though it might be a bit melodramatic to say so, to many people, the Internet is a way of life.

Dat is te zeggen, op gegeven moment maar begonnen met repareren:

Realising A Read-Write Web of Data (2009)

The current read-only Web of Data is the starting point of our work, its baseline. The contribution of this paper is on the one hand a general concept how to create, update and delete RDF data in a secure, reliable, trustworthy and scalable way. On the other hand, based on our proof of concept, we expose issues and challenges for realising a read-write Web of Data.

Krijgt al maar vastere vorm, om niet te zeggen ‘solide’:

What is Solid?

Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.

Nog iemand die een retrofit-nabrander voor extra vermogen in de maak heeft:

Meet the men who have rewritten the internet

Given Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s oft-stated worries about internet privacy you’d have to wonder whether he’d do things differently if he had his time over again. David Irvine, CEO of “the oldest startup in the world”, MaidSafe, is sure that he would.

So, a new internet, eh? What’s wrong with the old one?

The problem is data is neither private nor secure. If you taught a computer engineering graduate all about IP networks and computers then said “here are a bunch of cables and routers now go away and design a network where we can all store data and communicate securely”, the very last thing they’d do is design a server. The only reason we did it that way is because disk drives were invented before the internet.

So the server’s the problem?

Yes. We should be focused on securing the data, not the server, and the only way you can really do that is to create some form of network where humans can’t interfere, and where a piece of data is never stored on a single machine. By definition that has to be an autonomous network."

No servers? So where is my data stored?

When a user stores files on the SAFE Network, the operation appears as uploading, or saving a file to an existing storage provider, such as Dropbox. But SAFE splits the file into chunks and each chunk is then randomised and encrypted and stored at different locations on the network. Unlike the conventional internet, data is always encrypted on SAFE.

Op hun website een illustratie van de aangrijpingspunten op de bestaande netwerk-opbouw:

Net onder de ‘layer’ met daarin Berner-Lee’s Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) en aansluitend op de Transmission Control Program (TCP)-laag van Vincent “I did not invent the Web” Cerf.