Project Maelstrom – a Web browser of the people, by the people, for the people

A Web browser without any servers? A browser of the people, by the people, & for the people? Yes, that’s at least the aim of this “distributed Web” experiment called Project Maelstrom. Started by BitTorrent in December last year, the beta version of Project Maelstrom was launched on Friday.

With Project Maelstrom, BitTorrent & its team of now over 10,000 developers aims to deliver technology that can sustain an open Internet; 1, like we said earlier, does not require servers, that allows anyone to publish to a truly open Web, & that uses the power of distributed technology to scale efficiently.

Previously, in its alpha release, a developer’s publishing tool was included. This was to help the developers community build for Project Maelstrom straight from the command line. The beta release now has a new set of tools, empowering publishers and developers to leverage the efficiency of BitTorrent technology in their Content & interactive experiences.

Thus, Project Maelstrom beta comes with “the ease of use of a browser, with all of the power of BitTorrent technology.” The direction in which this project is headed for now is to address the question – can the new Internet browser be built as the way BitTorrent works?

According to a post on its official blog, Project Maelstrom already has established a growing community of testers, developers & publishers including technologists, academics & researchers, startups, agencies, among others.  This test group will now be be expanded with the introduction of the Project Maelstrom browser beta.

This is an open beta specifically for Windows users, & comes with a distributed protocol, a more efficient, scalable & cost-effective alternative to HTTP. It has native support for multiple protocols & file types, is people-powered, & initialy users can also play games, browse Websites, among other things.

If our readers are interested, they may click here to get their download of Project Maelstrom, like we said, for their Windows desktops.

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