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location-addressing

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The Centralized Web: Location-based addressing

Before we dig into how linking data works on the decentralized web, let's take a minute to examine how we're used to accessing data on the centralized web. Location addressing with URLs URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are the addresses we give each other for data on

Content Addressing & Content Identifiers (CIDs)

Content addressing and linked data Content addressing is a way to find data in a network using its content rather than its location. To understand this let's take an example of a library with a lot of books. When you look for a book in the library, you