What is this article even about? Sounds to me like simply someone making up a word, "Dweb", in the hope that it'll go into common usage, so they can later claim they invented it.
> This is the first post in a series. We’ll introduce projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application platforms. All of this work is either decentralized or distributed, minimizing or entirely removing centralized control.
I do agree they're making up a term, but naming/phrasing can change/shift dialogs and the default perspective and is actually important. Whether it's a good use of their time is another thing.
"D-net" might have been better.
"Vlog" almost sounds cool in comparison.
Distrinet? Meshweb? Hmm..
But this is just jumping on a bandwagon that's already well on its way and joining the landgrab over who gets to be seen as an important player in the realm by trying to be the one to slap a label on it. -- This is a tactic that's a bit lacking in intellectual honesty IMHO.
So I don't think they're claiming to invent it. I do find it odd however that it's pretty much a zero-information lead-in article; it doesn't seem like this approach will hook many in unless they already know what they're referring to in advance.
For the first one, we already have Archive.org.
For the second one, we already have flash drives.
For the third one, well, I'm not sure distributed sites will be a whole lot more stable than traditional ones. Someone still has to be there supporting it.
Archive.org might let you _see_ an old version of a website but it hardly lets you _use_ an old version of that site. Especially if the site in question is a dashboard-like service or single page application. (Imagine google docs, trello, or an amazon service's dashboard.) This is also true with apps. I had no way to go back to the old version of my feed reader app after they updated it and filled it with ads.
Flash drives aren't an option if any of the devices in question is lacking of a USB port. My phone has no way to accept a flash drive without some sort of adapter that I don't own.
And you're right that _someone_ still has to be there supporting the app. The goal of the distributed approach is that that someone can be any member of the distributed network. It no longer has to be a single central entity that can vanish without recourse.