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Alexander HowardI take the dogs walking in the woods because I wish to live deliberately, to reduce my gaze to only the essential facts of life & death, & determine if I could not learn what nature still has to teach me, & not, whenever I die, discover that I had not fully lived.
(Credit to HD Thoreau.)
#unwiring
@Kristian_Kiehling
#SciFi #Unwiring is a collaborative story by IIRC #cstross and #CoryDoctorow about seeding a country with a network of wireless nodes.
#FidoNet was (is?) a decentralised message passing network in the modem age.
#CIX and the program for it #AMEOL2 also allowed a phone call to receive and pass many forum messages to read and compose at leisure.
There is an #RFC for IP traffic by #pigeon which is extreme, but packets could go by USB stick, QR code ...
#Samizdat in #USSR