mulander

If the web develops the way it does now we will have 3 distinct zones.

1. The commercial web

DRM filled, fueled with advertisement and tracking. Essentially low quality amusement.

2. The dark/deep web

TOR, activism, privacy, illegal+legal anonymous trades

3. Bunch of retro people running BBS'es, peddling e-zins and demos.

The web as we know it from the 90s - content first.

I miss the old web, can we take a shortcut to #3 faster?

Jul 10, 2017 at 12:52pmWeb
Show threadAndrew RoachJul 10, 2017

@mulander oh man, #3 sounds great.

Can we find a way to do it without the internet again? I'd be okay with low speeds if I could have that real dial up BBS experience. (Although, ideally, we'll find a way faster point to point solution than POTS)

Show thread🛄 chitter.xyzJul 10, 2017
@mulander I already write most of my websites as static almost-malformed html anywy
Show threadmulanderJul 10, 2017

@Efi yeah, I consume a lot via terminal apps. I'm annoyed as hell when someone sends me an email that I absolutely must open outside of mutt.

Same goes for websites with autoplay videos, tons of images and heavy js - just to display a paragraph of text plus ads.

Show threadpas un réseau socialJul 10, 2017

@mulander i guess you just have to stay in zone 3 ...

i remember the content centric 90s too: now we just fight and steal from each other over the network (to say nothing of all the machine generated traffic)

Show threadMovedJul 10, 2017
@mulander I want to run a BBS...but i wasn't alive to experience the first time around :(
Show threadmulanderJul 10, 2017
@LottieVixen you can still do this today :)
Show threadMovedJul 10, 2017
@mulander also #3 hehe I'm feeling that is what the mesh network I am working on, will be like due to the want to save data transmission and have it responsive.
Show threadMovedJul 10, 2017
@mulander oooo how :3
Show threadmulanderJul 10, 2017

@LottieVixen

http://www.bbscorner.com/startabbs/

https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2015/04/02/creating_a_bbs_in_2015/

Show threadMovedJul 10, 2017
@mulander eeeeee thank you :3
Show threadLainy Jul 10, 2017
@mulander i feel like #3 and #2 are kinda merging.
Show threadShawn WebbJul 10, 2017
@mulander Let's just go back to Gopher. No ads, malware, or other bad things on Gopher these days.
Show threadMichael W Lucas, authorJul 10, 2017
@mulander @lattera I miss gopher.
Show threadOllivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈Jul 10, 2017
@mwlucas @lattera @mulander hey, have a gopher https://mastodon.social/media/LoO_oqTTLMBZfEwVFU8
Show threadDatTux 🌐🍍 enthusiastJul 10, 2017
@mulander I miss the federated nature of the old web. Well, when I say "miss" I couldnt possibly, Im not old enough to miss it but I can appreciate what it must have been like.