Startups have been working on projects to decentralize the web for years—it was even a plot point in the last season of HBO’s Silicon Valley—but tongues really began wagging when the father of the World Wide Web, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, announced he, too, wants a decentralized web.
To this end, Berners-Lee has a new startup, Inrupt, which is working on an open source platform called Solid, allowing users to store and exchange information without an intermediary like Amazon, Facebook or Google.
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