Oral history of Freenet from Chris Wellons https://nullprogram.com via email on May 6, 2017, with permission granted on Sep 3, 2018 to publish online. Lightly edited.
Have you ever heard of Freenet? I haven't paid any attention to it in almost a decade, so I have no idea what state it's in these days. It's a lot more advanced than Dat, but less accessible -- you have to install a large, ill-behaved Java application. Like a Dat URL, Freenet URLs embed a key that encrypt and authenticate the data, so only people who know the URL can decrypt it. It has both static URLs with fixed data (like