Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/January 25

Today in 2017 the first stable version of Google’s Chromium/Chrome web browser was released that had WebRTC enabled by default and without prefix. Firefox followed two days later, although standardization is still not finished. It enables web browsers to not only access resources on central servers, but also make peer-to-peer connections to other browsers, topped off with a multimedia streaming framework. Among other things, this puts the missing free replacement for Skype into everyone’s browsers and provides an infrastructure for a more decentralized web.