🛰️AquaSwitch Report📡
Do you have any idea how the internet works, or how it even started?
Or even, what the risks and rewards are of the up-and-coming web3 internet?
A short 🧵 to keep you up to speed on this crucial public infrastructure 🚠
Do you have any idea how the internet works, or how it even started?
Or even, what the risks and rewards are of the up-and-coming web3 internet?
A short 🧵 to keep you up to speed on this crucial public infrastructure 🚠
1/ The origins 🕳️
Some say the OG was telegraphy, which allows us to share messages globally through electrical signals.
Others say it was the first network of local computers from the 1950s...
In any case, these pseudo-internets are certainly part of the recipe.
Some say the OG was telegraphy, which allows us to share messages globally through electrical signals.
Others say it was the first network of local computers from the 1950s...
In any case, these pseudo-internets are certainly part of the recipe.
2/ Network of networks 🖇️
Key innovations in the 60s and 70s at @NPL 🇬🇧 , #ARPANET 🇺🇸 and #cyclades 🇫🇷 culminated in a network of computer networks 🖇️
An exclusive "inter-net" was born, used solely by academic and defence institutions, not quite the facilitator we know.
Key innovations in the 60s and 70s at @NPL 🇬🇧 , #ARPANET 🇺🇸 and #cyclades 🇫🇷 culminated in a network of computer networks 🖇️
An exclusive "inter-net" was born, used solely by academic and defence institutions, not quite the facilitator we know.
3/ Hello World! 💻 - 💻
The 1980s saw agreements in communications protocols #TCP #IP and the use of telephone copper wires to transmit digital information and connect all those global PCs 🖥️
The world was ready, but there was still 1 missing link 🔗
The 1980s saw agreements in communications protocols #TCP #IP and the use of telephone copper wires to transmit digital information and connect all those global PCs 🖥️
The world was ready, but there was still 1 missing link 🔗
4/ Web 1.0 🖥️
HTML brought the World Wide Web to the masses by making this infrastructure usable!
Imagine having to build your own connection to the sewer, water or road system yourself?
HTML let users build and host websites easily. Type an address and you're there!
HTML brought the World Wide Web to the masses by making this infrastructure usable!
Imagine having to build your own connection to the sewer, water or road system yourself?
HTML let users build and host websites easily. Type an address and you're there!
5/ A Static Internet
This was the web1.0 internet of the 90s, a series of static websites hosted all over the world.
You read it and move on. You write an email and move on.
Internet Service Providers and Search Engines like #Netscape or #Yahoo ruled supreme.
This was the web1.0 internet of the 90s, a series of static websites hosted all over the world.
You read it and move on. You write an email and move on.
Internet Service Providers and Search Engines like #Netscape or #Yahoo ruled supreme.
6/ Web 2.0 ☄️
But the arrival of #broadband internet and more powerful computers expanded the frontier.
We could now interact with public content: Like 👍 , comment 🗨️ or follow, not just read and move on.
Profile pics on #msn, profiles on #myspace ... It was a revolution.
But the arrival of #broadband internet and more powerful computers expanded the frontier.
We could now interact with public content: Like 👍 , comment 🗨️ or follow, not just read and move on.
Profile pics on #msn, profiles on #myspace ... It was a revolution.
7/ The pitfalls of Web 2.0
With exponentially increasing data came the arrival of data harvesting and the start of privacy concerns.
Our preferences & identities and more are out there "safely stored" and "responsibly used".
Until it's hacked, stolen and misused...
With exponentially increasing data came the arrival of data harvesting and the start of privacy concerns.
Our preferences & identities and more are out there "safely stored" and "responsibly used".
Until it's hacked, stolen and misused...
8/ The solution: Web 3.0
With all this in mind, the internet is becoming as much a blessing as a powerful curse.
But fret not, #Web3 (if built appropriately!) may just be what we need to regain control of our information and ownership.
By using #blockchain and #crypto...
With all this in mind, the internet is becoming as much a blessing as a powerful curse.
But fret not, #Web3 (if built appropriately!) may just be what we need to regain control of our information and ownership.
By using #blockchain and #crypto...
9/ Blockchains 🆗 -🆗 -🆗
Blockchains are powerful ways of storing and running infrastructure in a way that cannot be controlled by a single company or country.
It's uncensorable and governed by its owners. It's like an ideal system that is governed by #code (and NOT humans!)
Blockchains are powerful ways of storing and running infrastructure in a way that cannot be controlled by a single company or country.
It's uncensorable and governed by its owners. It's like an ideal system that is governed by #code (and NOT humans!)
10/ Zero-Knowledge Proofs #ZKP
ZKPs are maths that let you answer questions without having to reveal anything that you don't want.
Imagine being asked for #ID at the pub, and simply showing them proof that you're over 18 without revealing anything else (gender, sex)
#Privacy
ZKPs are maths that let you answer questions without having to reveal anything that you don't want.
Imagine being asked for #ID at the pub, and simply showing them proof that you're over 18 without revealing anything else (gender, sex)
#Privacy
11/ Satellite Internet 🛰️
And with the internet about to reach EVERYONE in the world (we're currently at only 60%), sorting out the internet to make it safe and under control of its users and NOT #corporations or #governments is PARAMOUNT.
See the thread below 👇 to know more
And with the internet about to reach EVERYONE in the world (we're currently at only 60%), sorting out the internet to make it safe and under control of its users and NOT #corporations or #governments is PARAMOUNT.
See the thread below 👇 to know more
https://twitter.com/AquaSwitchUK/status/1600777228324782080
Takeaways:
👉The internet arrived in the 1990s with static websites.
👉Web 2.0 in the 2000s let us interact with it.
👉But the internet is flawed and becoming dangerous.
👉Especially now that EVERYONE is about to get full access.
👉 Web 3.0 is the best alternative.
👉The internet arrived in the 1990s with static websites.
👉Web 2.0 in the 2000s let us interact with it.
👉But the internet is flawed and becoming dangerous.
👉Especially now that EVERYONE is about to get full access.
👉 Web 3.0 is the best alternative.
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