Somehow this reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373 released by CERN on 30th anniversary. Pretty sure Berners-Lee in recent years was contributing to decentralized web/Internet concept that does also reminds a little bit of early WWW.
Are you mabe thinking of Solid[1]? This is an interesting idea, and I have looked into it on several occasions recently, but despite it being around for a really long time it appears to be going exactly nowhere, unfortunately.
It seems a bit of a missed opportunity really. If they had more agressively pursued alliances, it could potentially have been a solid (pun only semi intended) foundation for Mastadon and Bluesky.
The name is unfortunate as well, it is really difficult to search for.
I dug around my bookmarks and now I remember what had in mind: IPFS and Beaker, and ZeroNet along with Solid. And it really seems none of that is active enough to gain any interest.
It seems a bit of a missed opportunity really. If they had more agressively pursued alliances, it could potentially have been a solid (pun only semi intended) foundation for Mastadon and Bluesky.
The name is unfortunate as well, it is really difficult to search for.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...