WWW: #FAI The Free Anonymous Internet project

This looks very useful for our little tribes.

http://cryptorials.io/free-anonymous-internet-project-browse-publish-shop-in-private/

http://cryptorials.io/free-anonymous-internet-project-browse-publish-shop-in-private/

The Free Anonymous Internet project, or FAI for short, is a decentralized ‘deep web’ service that is using blockchain technology to create a private, secure, peer-to-peer alternative to the regular world wide web.

Some people call this kind of thing ‘web 3.0’ to denote the continued progression from broadcast style sites on web 1.0, to the peer-to-peer communication and user-driven content of social networking giants in web 2.0, to the kind of user-driven platforms and P2P protocols which now seem likely to drive the next big internet revolution. The FAI team just call it the ‘next generation internet’.

FAI comes with its own digital currency based on the Bitcoin code, but also enables its users to publish their own media content and to browse content posted by others in complete privacy – without anybody being able to spy on what you are doing. There is even a built-in decentralized marketplace to buy and sell products with other users.

Getting Started

In order to access and use FAI, all you need to do is to download the client software. The best way that I can describe this software is that it is like a cross between a digital wallet and an internet browser.

You can download the latest version for Windows or Ubuntu from the official website: http://www.f-a-i.net/

When you run this for the first time it will ask you in which directory on your computer you want to store the blockchain and database. It is recommended (although not essential) that you store this separately from your operating system, so you may want to create a new hard drive partition before you install it, so you don’t need to go back and make changes later.

If you are using Windows then once you have downloaded and extracted the files all you need to do is open up the folder in your file explorer and double click on FAI.exe to start the installation wizard.