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Bob Kahn, not TBL, is the other "father of the internet".

> Today we are proud to announce the Blockstack browser, which allows developers everywhere to access a whole new internet.

reminded me of then-Senator Ted Stevens' take on net neutrality

> Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

In other words, what a load of hot air! Looking forward to their $50M seed round.

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Muneeb from Blockstack here. Yep, many people like Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf, David Clark, Tim Berners-Lee and others helped build the various components of what we today know as the internet.

I'd highly recommend looking at our peer-reviewed research papers at http://blockstack.org/papers. We've been obsessed with performance and scalability and 3-4 years of research, engineering, and hard work went into this.

We already have enough money and are grateful for having investors like Union Square Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lux Capital, and others who share our vision. Building a truly decentralized internet will take years/decades and we're looking forward to growing our open-source community that can take on this grand challenge.

Not sure which "we" you're talking about, but most folks you want to be excited about this know the difference between www and the internet, and some even have strong opinions: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1917...

Thanks for the link! This kind of project is really exciting, so I'm sorry if the nitpicking detracts any from your awesome aspirations :-)

I remembered the "series of tubes" comment but never heard this part:

I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday

I had to go back to listen to the original. Man what a trip.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

Reminds me of an old classic, the then-Minister for Communications in Australia back in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7X6peh-w

(misinformed)People tend to conflate the Internet and the World Wide Web

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