Interview The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) debuted nine years ago with hopes of changing the way people interact with content online. It is still an ongoing project.
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IPFS is part of what is known as the Distributed Web, a set of decentralized technologies sometimes referred to as Web3 until the NFT cryptocurrency clown car accident required a change in jargon.
But IPFS is just a technology, not a exploit. It is a set of peer-to-peer protocols for finding content on a decentralized network. It relies on a content identifier (CID) rather than a location (URL), meaning the focus is on the identity of the content (a hash) rather than a server where it is stored.
IPFS focuses on representing and addressing data, routing it, and transferring it. It is not a storage service, although storage is necessary to use it. It has been adopted by Cloudflare and implemented in Brave and Opera, among others, and they are working on making it work in Chromium.
