What is IPFS? Explaining The Interplanetary File System

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) has a goal to create a distributed Web. A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

The InterPlanetary File System (also known as IPFS), is an idea to make the Internet completely distributed. The concept transforms the traditional ‘HTTP’ internet into a Peer to Peer network, similar to how BitTorrent works.

When they came up with the naming of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the idea was to pay a bit of an homage to how the Internet got its name. JCR Licklider, who is the creator of the Arpanet (the predecessor to the internet), had a goal to create an Intergalactic Network. Thus the Internet is really short for Intergalactic Network. InterPlanetary takes a little bit of that same naming convention, additionally, IPFS aims to be the File System (FS) for Internet Protocol (IP). When you put them together you have IPFS, the internet file system.

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