Nivex 🐧 📻Tried to go to bed so of course my brain decides to come up with a new idea rather than fall asleep.
A website that generates a new random-ish image or 3D world or something unique based on a 128-bit seed value. Think UUID (isn't this how Minecraft works?), but instead it would use your #IPv6 client address. Hopefully the novelty would be sufficient to generate some buzz.
If you don't have IPv6, you simply could not reach the site. There would be a brief note in the About page noting that there have been reports the site is not reachable from some parts of the Internet and you should ask your ISP for assistance if this is the case. This way someone who saw it on, let's say, their mobile phone would wonder why it wasn't working on their home connection.
It would not mention IPv6 at all. Make the ISPs actually have to start troubleshooting this stuff from a genuinely confused consumer rather than blindly telling techies "We have no plans to deploy that."
A bonus could be to use a 256-bit seed, combining the server and client addresses, so there could be a bunch of these sites out there. Maybe turn it into a digital scavenger hunt. I've always thought there should be a sequel to SixSpotting :)
The artistry part is probably beyond my ken. Any digital artists out there picking up what I'm throwing down?
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