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commit0ec2fe75d58b373c9edd3cbe8e36ad50ff241ae9 authorGalen Wolfe-Pauly <mailroom@office-for.com> dateThu 12 May 2016, 22:43 (10 years ago) parentcb1c95a
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1919<div class="container stack">
2020 <div class="col-md-offset-1 col-md-10 slide-1">
21− <p>Urbit is an open source personal cloud computing platform.</p>
22− <p>Your Urbit is a personal server: a general-purpose computer in the cloud which stores all your data, runs all your apps, and manages your connected devices. </p>
23− <p>Each Urbit is part of a global, decentralized, peer-to-peer network that runs on top of the internet.</p>
21+ <p>Urbit is an open source, decentralized, personal cloud computing platform.</p>
22+ <p>Your Urbit is a personal server: a general-purpose computer in the cloud which stores all your data, runs all your apps, and manages your connected devices. Each Urbit is part of a global, decentralized, peer-to-peer network that runs on top of the internet.</p>
2423 <a class="btn black" href="#learn">Learn more</a>
2524 <a class="btn black" href="/docs">Read code</a>
2625 <email submit="Subscribe to updates"></email>
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3130 <div class="text-container">
3231 <div class="text">
3332 <div class="rect no-header">
34− <p>Urbit is a virtual city in the cloud.</p>
33+ <p>Our mission is to found a virtual city in the cloud.</p>
3534 </div>
3635 </div>
3736 </div>
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4544 <div class="slide">
4645 <h1>Digital freedom for everyone</h1>
47− <p>Your Urbit is your digital identity, permanent personal archive, general-purpose computing platform and secure network of devices. The convenience of cloud computing is fantastic, but it need not come at the cost of our security, control and creativity.</p>
4846 <p>We believe controlling your own data, code and identity is the definition of digital freedom. We believe the only path to this freedom is a general-purpose computer designed for human beings.</p>
47+ <p>Your Urbit is your cryptographic identity, permanent personal archive, general-purpose computing platform and secure network of devices. The convenience of cloud computing is fantastic, but it need not come at the cost of our security, control and creativity.</p>
4948 <p>Read more in our <a href="./blog/2016-2-29">overview post</a>&#32; and <a href="./blog/2016-3-8">core principles</a>.</p>
5049 </div>
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5251 <div class="slide">
5352 <h1>A frontier to homestead</h1>
5453 <div class="pair">
54+ <div class="image left"><img src="http://urbit.s3.amazonaws.com/16-3-10/grid.png"/></div>
5555 <div>
5656 <p>In Urbit, network address space is cryptographic property, like Bitcoin. If Bitcoin is money and Ether is law, Urbit is land.</p>
57− <p>The Urbit network is designed to grow into a digital republic: a network where each node is individually owned with no central point of control. </p>
58− <p>We think of the Urbit network as a city: decentralized but connected, safe but free.</p>
57+ <p>The Urbit network is designed to grow into a digital republic: a network where each node is individually owned with no central point of control. We think of the Urbit network as a city: decentralized but connected, safe but free.</p>
5958 <p>Read more in our <a href="blog/2016-3-9">address space post</a>.</p>
6059 </div>
61− <div class="image right"><img src="http://urbit.s3.amazonaws.com/16-3-10/grid.png"/></div>
6260 </div>
6361 </div>
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7674 <div class="slide">
7775 <h1>On a completely new stack</h1>
78− <p>Ordinary people can't manage a Unix server on the Internet. Unix servers just weren't designed for the demands of 2016. Urbit is a clean-slate design, from interpreter axioms to packet protocol, that runs on top of Unix and the Internet.</p>
79− <p>Urbit is fun to play and program with, but is still in its early phases. We've been working quietly so far, but the system is now ready for developers to explore and advance the platform.</p>
80− <p>Read more in our <a href="#">CS paper</a>, <a href="/docs">developer docs</a> and <a href="#">roadmap</a>.</p>
76+ <p>Ordinary people can't manage a Unix server on the Internet. A bare server just wasn't designed for the demands of 2016. Urbit is a clean-slate design, from interpreter axioms to packet protocol, that runs on top of Unix and the Internet.</p>
77+ <p>Urbit is fun to play and program with, but is still in its early phases. We've been working quietly so far, but the system is now ready for developers to explore and experiment on top of.</p>
78+ <p>Read more in our <a href="#">CS paper</a>, <a href="/docs">developer docs</a>&#32;and <a href="#">roadmap</a>.</p>
8179 </div>
8280 </div>
8381</div>
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89− <p>Soon we’re going to pre-sell the first blocks of Urbit namespace.</p>
87+ <p>Soon we’re going to pre-sell the first blocks of Urbit address space.</p>
9088 <p>If you'd like to homestead this new territory:</p>
9189 <email></email>
9290 </div>
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103101 <a href="blog/~2016.3.2">Namespace</a>
104102 <a href="blog/~2016.3.2">Product</a>
105103 <a href="blog/~2016.3.2">Roadmap</a>
104+ <a href="blog/~2016.3.2">Company</a>
106105 </div>
107106 <div class="col-md-4">
108107 <h2>Start an Urbit</h2>