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‘Father of the Web’ working on privacy-focused project called Solid
- Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web — is fervently working on decentralizing the internet with a project called Solid.
- Although Solid is a few years old, work has recently ramped up on the secretive project.
- Berners-Lee hopes that Solid will put the power of user data back into the hands of users themselves.
GitHub:
solid/solid
Solid (derived from "
social
linked
data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building
decentralized Web applications based on
Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible. It relies as much as possible on existing
W3C standards and protocols.
