Tim Berners-Lee is working on a decentralized internet project that he says does not require blockchain technology.
Tim Berner-Lee, the creator of the original code for the Internet, has participated in The Next Web conferences, where he has expressed his ideas about the future of the web. The father of the World Wide Web (WWW) has indicated that is working on a new decentralized Internet, which he calls Project Solid.
In this sense, Tim Berners-Lee's Project Solid It would not be based on blockchain technology, as the engineer has his own idea of what the decentralized architecture for the successor of the web will look like.
During the conference, Berners-Lee was asked whether Web3 lived up to his vision of what a decentralized Internet should look like, to which he replied with a terse but emphatic “nope.”
In fact, the engineer has pointed out that: “when you try to build things on blockchain, it just doesn’t work.”
Project Solid, Web 3 by Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee's Project Solid is a attempt to return to the original idea of the WWW which was none other than to build an open, decentralized and free environment for the creation of content.
As the Internet has progressed, Application design began to centralize and user data became a source of power and income for companies working on the Internet.
Unlike decentralized applications or blockchains, Project Solid aims to store user information in Decentralized data stores called “pods”, which can be stored wherever the user wants. Later, the user can choose which applications can access this data.
Users can have more than one pod. For example, we can have one for our personal data and another for work. In addition, pods can be stored on the computer or sent to all of our devices.
Furthermore, The information from these “pods” can be linked, which will allow information to be shared across the Internet.
The goal of this system is to improve privacy while offering interoperability, speed and scalability.
In this way, Solid will prevent companies from misusing data for unauthorized and unsolicited uses. At the same time, it will create new opportunities for users to benefit from the processing of their data.
Tim Berners-Lee and Web 3
Despite rejecting the use of blockchain for his decentralized web project, Tim Berners-Lee sold a NFT with the original source code of the WWW for 5,43 million dollars.
The NFT contained the original files Berners-Lee wrote in 1989 for the creation of the original World Wide Web, with a timestamp and archives in Berners-Lee's own handwriting of his work on the code.
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