From the laboratory to global supercomputers: The starting point of AO is a student's obsession.

In the latest episode of the AO Computer Club, Sam Williams, the core builder of AO (also the founder of Arweave), recalled a little-known story - the origin of AO was not capital, nor a team, nor even a business plan, but a simple thought during his PhD:

"Why can't we turn the internet itself into a computer?"

This statement sounds romantic, but behind it is 10 years of cryptographic experiments, distributed system prototypes, and perseverance after countless failures.

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