We need a new world wide web
Transact anything peer-to-peer with anyone. No intermediaries needed and immunity from censorship, deplatforming and demonetisation. Well here's tangible hope...
(3 min read)
Do you recognize this site?
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
It’s the first website.
In 1989 the early internet existed, but had a lot of functionality and adoption issues. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, then at CERN, proposed a world wide web in 1989 using a web browser agent, web servers to host websites and handle browser requests, and a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) to define the communication between them. Amusingly, his boss wrote “vague, but exciting” in the margins of his proposal. The first web server was set up at CERN the following year in 1990.
The rest is history.
Today however, the world wide web despite its many benefits has drawbacks that we have discussed at length, and will keep bringing up till a better solution is there for all who need it. Tim Berners-Lee himself said on the 30th anniversary of the world wide web, “People realize that their personal data is being used in a system and that this system is being used to manipulate people.” So, what is the solution? “Change and reengineer some of it. There is a lot more that we can expect from the Internet, that we can achieve, but it won’t come by itself.”
Now, that better solution has landed with its first beachhead.
Earlier we introduced the Adot Protocol, an application protocol at the same layer as HTTP that together with TODA enables strong ownership of identity and assets, direct peer-to-peer trade of TODA files without intermediaries, and with privacy and security built in by design. A remedy for the shortfalls of the first world wide web. So, if there is an Adot Protocol, then there should also be an Adot browser agent and Adot web servers as well. Just like the first world wide web.
Agreed, here you go:
You are looking at the Adot Browser Agent prototype, or what we call the Agent, here to let you securely own anything, and meet anyone anywhere, anytime and trade whatever you want peer-to-peer without intermediaries. It comes packed with a personalized account that assigns the Agent to a user and gives them an inventory that can hold any asset. The current address at the top is an Adot room (adot://adot-tech.todaq.net) which you can see on the right side that has a number of helpful links to other Rooms, reminiscent of that first website from CERN three decades ago.
The first Adot Server was created at TODAQ, and the second was just shipped to our Middle East based partner BaseAlpha.
Now we are 2.
4, 8,16 and onwards will soon follow.
Vague, but exciting? Maybe. The Adot web and the Agent are getting put to use into every project and contract we undertake where valuable assets are owned and traded. That’s tangible, and exciting.
If you want to get involved with this spread of the next world wide web, please get a hold of us. We welcome your help.