How this advocacy blog came to be

On 9 September 2010, Kenny Bentley and Michiel de Jong decided to take a few months off their day jobs in order to develop a proof-of-concept for a web architecture in which servers are nothing more than interchangeable commodity infrastructure. Later that year they published a proof-of-concept that involved end-to-end encryption and cross-origin resource sharing.

During 2011, more people joined the project including Javi, Jan, Azul and many others. A crowd-funding campaign raised 5000 euros and was followed by donations from nlnet, Wau Holland Stiftung, DuckDuckGo and others. Around 400 web technology enthusiasts joined the mailing list and led the way from this early proof-of-concept to what is now the remoteStorage spec, curated by the W3C community group that was set up for that purpose, and the RemoteStorageJs javascript library, now maintained by nilclass.

As the initial idea matures into its own 'thing' under the name remoteStorage, we recognized we could make this website into an advocacy blog about unhosted web apps in general. That's why you now find information here about not only the remoteStorage standard and the remoteStorageJs library, but also on other topics that will be relevant for you when you move your web app into the browser. See also our first-year report.