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From YouTube: Interplanetary Cambrian Explosion - Brendan O'Brien
Description
A wave of new IPFS implementations has grown in the past year. This track introduction will give an overview of recent developments in IPFS implementations, and how existing ones are adapting to meet new demands.
A
I
want
to
talk
about
a
different
technology
called
The
X
Windows
system.
Anybody
here
familiar
with
the
X
Windows
system.
Xmodo
system
is
a
really
interesting
piece
of
software
history
for
the
record.
The
logo
came
later,
but
I
think
the
logo
is
really
nice,
but
this
is
what
it
looked
like
when
it
was
running
and
I.
Think
there's
some
really
interesting
bits
here,
and
so,
let's
take
a
trip
back
to
when
this
is
how
computers
worked
and
it
was
1985.
A
and
we're
on
the
campus
of
MIT
and
the
X
Windows
system
had
just
kind
of
actually
is
this
out
of
order.
Yes,
no!
No!
This
is
out
of
order.
Okay,
one!
Second,
okay,
we're
gonna
start
here!
We
go
yes,
so
thanks
check
your
slides
beforehand,
speakers,
so
it's
1983,
we're
in
MIT
campus
and
a
50
million
dollar
Grant
is
given
out
five
I.
Did
the
inflation
numbers
on
this?
That's
145
million
dollars
in
2022
dollars
at
the
time
to
build
out
A
system
that
could
work
to
literally
invent
the
computer
lab.
A
This
was
literally
about
getting
people
to
use
computers,
and-
and
so
it's
a
big
Grant
to
do
an
audacious
thing,
but
we
literally
have
the
computer
lab
or
had
the
computer
lab
if
you've
ever
had
the
distinct
pleasure
of
going
to
high
school
and
being
in
a
computer
lab,
maybe
I'm
dating
myself,
but
because
it's
become
because
of
this
project
and
the
oh
yeah.
So
the
kind
of
way
this
went
was
like
it
was
1983
and
they
literally
opted
to
build
this
as
a
distributed
system,
which
you
know
I
think
sometimes
we
think
like
wow.
A
We
are
really
cool
and
neat
and
new,
but
like
in
1983,
they
figured
out
a
way
to
virtualize
all
of
their
desktops.
So
when
you
logged
in
on
MIT,
you
actually
were
talking
to
a
set
of
servers
on
campus,
that
held
all
of
your
state
and
all
of
your
data,
and
you
were
just
using
a
sort
of
Thin
Client
to
interact
with
all
of
your
stuff
on
MIT
campus,
so
they
figured
out
how
to
make
this
work
in
1983,
like
my
yeah,
my
compiler
would
not
fit
on
the
others
yeah.
A
So
how
does
it
even
work?
I,
don't
know
it's
magic,
but
I
think
what
was
what's
exciting
about
the
story
is
the
way
that
this
happens
like
on
message
boards.
It
was
just
somebody
being
like:
hey
I've
got
this
great
idea:
I've
got
this
new
thing,
we're
gonna
call
it
X
I,
don't
know,
let's
use
it,
and
if
you
look
at
this,
I
want
to
point
out
some
things.
When
we're
talking
about
implementations,
we
have
a
language,
a
platform
and
a
use
case
right.
The
use
case
in
this
context
is
hey.
A
We
need
to
figure
out
how
to
make
the
computer
lab
a
thing.
The
language
is
C,
there's
a
language
porting
involved
in
X,
which
is
coming
after
another
Windows
system.
Before
it
and
the
platform
there
were
two
platforms
that
they
had
to
ship
to
right:
the
dec
machines
and
the
IBM
machines,
and
so
like
these
are
common
patterns
that
we
will
show
up
again
when
we're
talking
about
multiple
implementations
and
I.
A
Don't
know
how,
if
this
exactly
sort
of
how
it
went
on
the
day,
but
like
I'm,
assuming
it
got
a
bunch
of
reactions
that
was
like
hey.
This
is
really
great.
This
I'm
doing
a
modern
interpretation
of
how
that
conversation
would
have
gone.
This
is
my
world's
view
of
it,
and
so
X
is
born
and
everyone's
like
this
is
amazing.
The
X
Windows
system
straight
fire-
this
is
going
to
be
awesome.
Computer
labs
are
so
lit,
1985
is
a
great
year
and
from
there
we
start
to
get
a
lot
of
implementations.
A
You,
you
sort
of
get
this
really
big
explosion
of
implementations
of
the
X
Windows
system
for
all
of
these
different
machines
and
I.
Think
that's
a
really
like
okay,
interesting,
and
it
was
also
what
led
to
the
birth
of
the
MIT
license,
because
at
the
time
we
had
all
of
these
different
organizations
that
all
needed
an
implementation
of
X
that
all
had
to
try
and
figure
out
wait.
A
How
are
we
going
to
work
together
on
this
common
problem
and
there
was
literally
a
conversation,
so
this
is
like
going
pretty
well
we're
reaching
incumbency
and
there's
there's
a
conversation
happening
in
the
background
that
I
don't
have
slides
for,
but
the
all
of
these
people
are
saying
like
hey
who's,
going
to
like
own
the
license
to
this
and
MIT
actually
at
one
point
tries
to
foist
it
off
and
all
of
the
manufacturers.
The
the
capitalist
jerks
collectively
said
no
MIT.
A
We
need
you
to
keep
it
and
you
should
be
the
stewards
of
this
and
that's
actually
where
the
MIT
license
emerges
from
we
get
the
need.
The
Collective
Agreement
of
the
industry
that
wait
open
source
is
actually
a
viable
thing
and
what
this
actually
ends
up
becoming
is
sort
of
the
birth
of
open
source.org.
As
we
understand
it
today
which,
if
we
look
at
that,
like
that's
a
pretty
amazing,
start
to
a
story
right,
but
the
thing
that
blows
my
mind
is:
that
was
only
the
beginning.
A
At
the
end
of
this,
in
1986,
a
lab
in
DEC
says:
okay,
this
is
going
really
well.
We
are
going
to
bring
in
our
a
team
and
they
they
bring
in
a
whole
bunch
of
new
engineers
and
rewrite
all
of
the
X
Windows
system
from
the
ground
up,
and
they
make
it
orders
of
magnitude
more
performance
and
from
there
we're
still
in
the
phase
where
we're
in
the
computer
lab
we're
operating
on
college
campuses.
A
They
take
this
x
system,
they
take
to
the
next
level.
Everyone
says
all
right:
you
can
do
that
as
long
as
you
keep
it
open,
source
and
they're
like
for
sure,
let's
make
this
work
and
let's
keep
going
and
lots
of
reaction,
emojis,
I'm
sure
so
X-Men
are
citizen.
Previous
11
comes
out,
and
this
is
where
things
like
go
from
like
wow.
A
This
is
a
really
successful
project
with
some
like
interesting
legs
to
like
moving
to
nine
Hardware
vendors
MIT
license
is
good,
they,
oh
yeah,
so
this
is
the
conversation
I
had,
but
at
one
point
we
end
up
with
1200
employees.
Working
on
this
thing,
like
digital
equipment
company,
goes
all
in
on
the
X
Windows
system.
It
is
still
releasing
software
today
in
2022.,
like
the
external
system,
is
still
in
use
in
a
number
of
places.
This
blows
my
mind
like
this.
A
Is
we
thought
this
was
the
story
right
like
if
you
rewind
back
to
1985,
we
thought
wow,
we've
made
it
our
technology
expenditure
system.
Maybe
we
could
say
our
technology
ipfest
is
doing
really
well,
it's
like
the
incumbent
thing
on
blockchains,
and
this
is
what
it
actually
looks
like.
There's
a
rewrite,
there's
a
massive
Market
expansion
and
it
becomes
assumed
infrastructure.
None
of
us
really
think
about
X
today,
but
it
is
literally
being
used
and
relied
upon
today
and
I.
Think
that's!
The
kind
of
thing
I
want
to
talk
about.
A
Is
this
transition
to
log
scale
of
Awesomeness,
where
there's
a
real
sense
that
there's
more
to
this
story,
and
so
what
I'm
here
to
tell
you
is
I,
think
that
we're
here
I
think
that
we
are
at
the
moment
where
ipvs
has
reached
incumbency
right
when
we
think
about
the
web
3
space.
If
you
want
to
take
a
middle
off-chain
data
and
you
want
to
start
somewhere,
you
put
it
on
ipfs,
and
that
is
really
exciting.
What
I'm
here
to
tell
you
is
for
anybody
who
went
to
the
2019
ipfs
Camp.
A
A
It's
not
a
big
deal
when
we
get
into
early
adopters.
Their
definition
is
a
little
murkier.
Their
definition
of
use
case
is
like
wow
I.
Don't
like
invest
as
much
of
my
identity
in
this,
but
I
do
put
a
lot
of
I
kind
of
peaked
and
interested
and
I
know
smart
people
who
are
using
this
stuff
called
ipfs
and
so
I'm
going
to
give
it
a
shot.
A
This
is
a
very
tough
challenge.
Getting
up
and
over
this
hump
and
over,
we
won't
talk
about
the
chasm
today,
because
it's
terrifying,
but
the
the
early
majority
is
where
we
want
to
head
right.
How
do
we
become
just
assumed
infrastructure
and
the
people
to
do
that
are
actually
in
this
room
and
I
think
the
thing
that
is
really
exciting
and
actually
really
feels
like
from
where
I
sit
in
the
community
like
a
growing
point
on
the
open
source
model?
A
Is
this
idea
that
we're
a
network
of
teams
and
that
we're
reaching
deeper
levels
of
coordination
than
I
know
of
in
other
Industries
I
have
routine
bi-weekly
meetings
with
people
that
work
at
other
companies
and
try
to
coordinate
on
hey?
We
don't
have
bandwidth
to
do
this
and
we
really
think
that
you're
doing
really
great.
Can
you
build
this
with
us?
A
A
I'm
really
excited
to
sort
of
like
have
a
number
of
really
strong
implementations
come
forward,
but
I
hope
the
thing
you'll
take
away
from
this
is
this
is
a
very
Vibrant
Community
that
is
starting
to
fire
on
all
cylinders
and
work
together
in
a
way
that
is
kind
of
Novel
you're.
Actually
seeing
people
learn
from
each
other
be
able
to
rely
on
each
other's
stuff,
as
it
is
all
in
Rapid,
development
and
I.
Think
that's
a
really
exciting
moment
to
be
in.
So
thank
you
for
being
here.
It's
much
appreciated.