Publishing your first Decentralized website with Dat

This session is facilitated by Georgiy Shibaev

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About this session

  • High level introduction to Dat archives and dat:// URLs
  • Get people to install Beaker/Cliqz on their device
  • Get people to load a P2P website on their device
  • Get people to create a fresh Dat archive and explain what that means
  • Show some basic HTML formatting
  • Get people to write a quick blurb about something they’re interested in
  • Show how they can add a file to their archive and link to it (dancing baby gif)
  • Spice up their website with 90’s web aesthetics, thick borders, background images,
  • Get people to share their website with the person next to them
  • Show people how to get their website onto a storage provider like hashbase, and why they might want to do that
  • Closing statements about potential for P2P and owning your own data
  • QA

Goals of this session

This workshop will walk people through publishing their first P2P website using Dat and some retro-feeling HTML. Bring your laptop or phone and expect garrish colors, obnoxious GIFs, and the element.