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14−# Company
14+# We like to think freely and design from first-principles.
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16+Urbit started out as an independent research project in 2002. It wasn’t called Urbit back then, it was just a desire to reimagine how computers could be built. Today we’re six people full-time in San Francisco.
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18+# In 2013 we started Tlon with the goal of delivering the first Urbit proof of concept.
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20+Since the code is open source we wanted to make a clear distinction between Urbit the project and the company behind Urbit. Tlon’s business is simple: at first we sell namespace and eventually hosting. That’s it. We can’t own you. We can’t even own Urbit. We just advance the platform.
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22+Tlon owns about half of the Urbit namespace, and the Urbit foundation owns the other half. A small portion has been given to early developers, supporters and investors. The current state lives in the kernel, actually. In `ames.hoon`.
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24+# Want to join us? Send us a resume. Or a portfolio. Or a draft of your novel.
25+
26+<a class="end">Get in touch</a>
main/about/roadmap.md+28−1
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14−# Roadmap
14+<h1>Urbit is designed to become your home in the cloud.<br/>Today it’s a working proof of concept.</h1>
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16+<div class="road">
17+ <div class="step">
18+ <div class="dot"></div>
19+ <h2>0</h2>
20+ <h3>Lay the foundation</h3>
21+ <p>Urbit started as an independent PhD project in 2002. In the past few years we’ve taken the project from a simple demo to a working proof of concept.</p>
22+ <p>2002 - 2008 — Nock virtual machine</p>
23+ <p>2008 - 2012 — Hoon programming language</p>
24+ <p>2012 - 2016 — Arvo opearting environment</p>
25+ </div>
26+ <div class="step">
27+ <div class="dot"></div>
28+ <h2>1</h2>
29+ <h3>Get to continuity</h3>
30+ <p>Urbit’s design is to create a single, uniform computing layer that can run on top of any unix box with an internet connection.</p>
31+ <p>Today the virtual machine is frozen, the programming language works well and the operating environment is still maturing.</p>
32+ <p>Our next major milestone is full network continuity. With continuity we can get much closer to the fully self-updating platform Urbit is intended to be.</p>
33+ </div>
34+ <div class="step">
35+ <div class="dot"></div>
36+ <h2>2</h2>
37+ <h3>Connect to everything</h3>
38+ <p>You already have an Urbit — it’s just spread across all the services you use. The first thing your Urbit should do is provide a clean and simple interface for all of today’s services.</p>
39+ <p>It should be simple to abstract away their differences so developers can build new things on top.</p>
40+ </div>
41+</div>
main/get.md+26−5
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22title: Get an Urbit
33sort: 5
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5+layout: urbit
56navdpad: false
67navmode: navbar
78navclass: urbit
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1011
1112<div class="slide">
12− <div class="text right">
13− <h1>In May 2016 we’re going to sell the first block of Urbit namespace.</h1>
14− <p>Urbit namespace is designed to be owned by individuals. Imagine it’s 1611 and we’ll sell you lower Manhattan for $128.</p>
15− <p>Enter your email, and we’ll let you know when the sale starts:</p>
13+ <h1>In May 2016 we’re going to sell the first block of Urbit namespace.</h1>
14+ <div class="pair">
15+ <div class="image left">
16+ <img src="http://15-swap.s3.amazonaws.com/16-2-29%20Design/ex/get_0.png" />
17+ </div>
18+ <div class="text">
19+ <p>Urbit namespace is designed to be owned by individuals. Imagine it’s 1611 and we’ll sell you lower Manhattan for $128.</p>
20+ <p>Enter your email, and we’ll let you know when the sale starts:</p>
21+ <email></email>
22+ <a href="https://twitter.com/urbit_">And follow us on Twitter</a>
23+ </div>
24+ </div>
25+</div>
26+
27+<div class="slide">
28+ <h1>Developer? Get on the test network and tinker.</h1>
29+ <div class="pair">
30+ <div class="text">
31+ <p>Urbit is not vaporware. This site is served by an Urbit, in fact. We use Urbit to build Urbit. Anyone can use <code>|ask</code> to get a planet and start learning the system. It’s a lot of fun, actually.</p>
32+ <p><a href="https://github.com/urbit/urbit">Clone the repo from GitHub</a></p>
33+ <p><a href="https://urbit.org/docs">Read the docs</a></p>
34+ </div>
35+ <div class="image right">
36+ <img src="http://15-swap.s3.amazonaws.com/16-2-29%20Design/ex/get_1.png" />
37+ </div>
1638 </div>
17− <div class="diagram left"></div>
1839</div>
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1010<div class="h-arrow">
11−<h1>Here are the most recent updates from discussions on <code>urbit.org</code>:</h1>
11+<h1>Here are the most recent updates from discussion on <code>urbit.org</code>:</h1>
1212<img src="http://15-swap.s3.amazonaws.com/16-2-29%20Design/ex/arrow.png" />
1313</div>
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