Beaker was first announced in 2016 as an experimental peer-to-peer (P2P) browser that promotes the decentralized web (dweb), as opposed to the technology dominant for decades now, where data is stored and controlled on central servers.
Like with decentralized alternative social platforms, the ultimate goal is to improve privacy and security and take control of data out of the hands of Big Tech and give it to users themselves.
Most people are familiar with how this tech works thanks to the BitTorrent protocol, and Beaker, developed by Blue Link Labs, is designed along similar principles, allowing any computer to act as a server and several computers to serve one site. Similar to torrenting, with Beaker's protocol, the more "seeders" are involved, the greater availability of bandwidth.
Although Beaker is built using Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome) and in that way looks and feels like most browsers, the main selling point is that instead of just allowing users to browse the web, Beaker also lets them create and host websites from their computers, and do it easily.
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