Sites can be accessed through an ordinary web browser when using the ZeroNet application, which acts as a local webhost for such pages.

[3] In addition to using bitcoin cryptography, ZeroNet uses trackers from the BitTorrent network[4] to negotiate connections between peers.

[6] Despite the censorship, however, it is still possible to access ZeroNet from behind the Great Firewall of China, even over Tor, by bootstrapping over Meek, and connecting to peers directly.

[8] The zeronet-conservancy fork maintains existing codebase and adds features aimed at gradually migrating to a new p2p network designed from scratch[9] [10] The feasibility of peer-to-peer online web-sites had been hypothesised for some time, with The Pirate Bay suggesting they would build a network, as well as BitTorrent Inc. which created the closed-source Project Maelstrom.

Server-side languages like PHP are not supported, although ZeroNet creates and gives API to interact with SQLite databases, their data also distributed (as JSON files) via P2P.