Menu Dat Introduction How Dat Works FAQ Cookbook Browser Dat DIY Dat Ecosystem Overview SLEEP Hyperdrive Hypercore Note this is about Dat 1.0 and later. For historical info about earlier incarnations of Dat (Alpha, Beta) check out this post . When someone starts downloading data with the Dat command-line tool , here's what happens: Dat links look like this: dat.land/c3fcbcdcf03360529b47df32ccfb9bc1d7f64aaaa41cca43ca9ac7f6778db8da . The domain, dat.land, is there so if someone opens the link in a browser we can provide them with download instructions, and as an easy way for people to visually distinguish and remember Dat links. Dat itself doesn't actually use the dat.land part, it just needs the last part of the link which is a fingerprint of the data that is being shared. The first thing that happens when you go to download data using one of these links is you as...