I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
@kensanata
I was thinking along the lines of a second wave of BBSs, but I really know nothing about the technology needed.
@polychrome @eladhen Hah, that’s even stranger than Gopher!
@kensanata @polychrome
I'm thinking of something that won't be dependent on domain name providers and such... P2P net.
I really know nothing, of course...
@eladhen @kensanata @polychrome namecoin tried, but mostly failed, to provide decentralized domains. Plenty of other attempts too. Interop kills them every time :/
@lupine @kensanata @polychrome
I don't know what interop is... As I said – I know nothing.
@eladhen @kensanata @polychrome sorry! interoperability.
If you want to connect to a namecoin-accessible site, you need to be pretty deeply involved in namecoin.
You can set up a mirror in the usual DNS, but then the decentralization thing goes out of the window
@eladhen @kensanata @polychrome unfortunately so
@lupine @kensanata @polychrome
Namecoin? Is that cryptocurrency?