# Party like it's 1989

**Published by:** [samyules](https://paragraph.com/@samyules/)
**Published on:** 2022-11-17
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@samyules/party-like-it-s-1989

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Back to the Future! Woohoo I'm here! I made it to the future of the internet. This is my first post on mirror.xyz. I really didn’t understand the draw of Web3 until this week. If I’m honest, I probably still don’t understand it. Inter-planetary, man! I find the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to be the most intriguing aspect of current Web3 technologies. A standardized, distributed file system – not managed by some cloud-giant company – that uses peer-to-peer distribution of files. That should make it easy to use and extremely resilient. For some reason, the thought of it makes me excited! Handshakes 🤝 Handshake domains from namebase.io also get me a little excited. I wish the process for aquiring them were a little more straitforward, but the possibilies are great! A top-level-domain for everybody! Pretty soon you could just type http://samyules/ and go to my site! I started the auction process yesterday to aquire a few domains for myself. The auctions require $HNS coins, which currently must be purchased with $BTC. I had to re-download coinbase, but it did give me a way of burning up $25 worth of BTC I had laying around. It takes about 5 days to get through the auction process. Then I should be the proud owner of a handful of handshake domains. Cool! My journey begins! I am excited to start learning, and to hopefully take advantage of all that Web3 has to offer. I hope it wins!

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