Ephemeral hosting

[Rooftop]

This feels very core, but I don't remember it being posted: The page that only exists as long as someone is looking it:

http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b6e368d27514fe305ca7dcecc32c0134838?

[ergophobe]

Wow... that boggles my mind.

So if you could create the page and leave your browser open and then close your browser, but the page could live forever or be gone in 1 second, depending... pretty crazy

It reminds me of those electronic pets that were big a few years ago

[littleman]

Lots of potential here: 
P2P without the need for a stand alone client 
Web content without the need to host it 
Potential to subvert censorship
A bunch of stuff I am not even seeing yet

There will need to be a dedicated hash engine which I guess will also be used as an archiver -- I could see that getting really big really fast (both in terms of need for processing power and storage, and in popularity).

[ergophobe]

Web content without the need to host it 

But at least in this implementation, you would never know when the content would be gone. At the point that you have to have a hash archiver, you've sort of lost the point haven't you?

But for a rapidly growing movement with a lot of people involved, it would pretty much impossible to take the content down. They would have to hunt down each client and knock out its connection faster than new clients connect.

[JasonD]

fantastic... brain churning... sounds so good!