{"id":38521,"date":"2018-10-01T05:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38521"},"modified":"2018-10-01T05:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:32:18","slug":"father-of-world-wide-web-launches-platform-which-aims-to-radically-decentralize-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38521","title":{"rendered":"Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on\u00a0top<\/em>\u00a0of it,\u201d Tim Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> last month. “I was devastated” he said while going through a litany of harmful and dangerous developments of the past three decades of the web.<\/p>\n

That’s why “the Father of the World Wide Web”\u00a0has launched a start-up that intends to end the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Amazon, while in the process letting individuals take back control of their own data<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Berners-Lee’s new online platform and company\u00a0Inrupt<\/em>\u00a0is being described as a “personal online data store,” or pod, where everything from messages, music, contacts or other personal data will be stored in one place overseen by the user<\/strong>\u00a0instead of an array of platforms and apps run by corporations seeking to profit off personal information. The project seeks \u201cpersonal empowerment through data\u201d and aims to “take back” the web, according to company statements.<\/p>\n

The man who created the world wide web by\u00a0implementing\u00a0the first ever successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in 1989 lamented that his creation has been abused by powerful entities for\u00a0everything\u00a0mass surveillance to fake news to psychological manipulation to corporations commodifying individuals’ information<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Image via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But he’s long been at work on a new project to take the web back, described in depth by the business technology magazine\u00a0Fast Company<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This week, Berners-Lee will launch,\u00a0Inrupt<\/a>, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it<\/strong>. In other words, it\u2019s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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