What the ~::%;!? is Urbit?

Urbit is kind of hard to explain. What we do is fix the internet. But don't call us for tech support, because our idea of fixing things is to burn it all down. Urbit is a completely new type of computer.

How do I use Urbit?

It's easy. There are a few different ways, but the simplest is to get a free instance from Red Horizon. Once your Urbit is running, you can interact with it through a web browser from any computer, anywhere.

Why should I care what a solid-state interpreter is?

You don't have to. All you really need to know is that Urbit is designed and executed in strict mathematical terms. Urbit doesn't need you to care about "devices" or "drivers"—it just computes.

How are you going to fix the internet?

By leaving it behind. But how do we make a new internet that doesn't have the same problems as the old one? We throw out all the cruft.

The traditional Internet is a hodgepodge of random protocols with cumulative weaknesses. Urbit has one data structure and one networking protocol; one virtual machine and one address space. All of these are fully general.

Contact you at ~macrep-racdec? What the heck does that mean?

That's my Urbit address. It actually stands for a natural number (82,374,773 to be exact). Once you're on Urbit, just send a message to ~macrep-racdec using the default Tlon application. I'm looking forward to it!