Thoughts on a distributed web
2014-03-20 01:11:48.322007+01 by
Dan Lyke
6 comments
RT Rogers Cadenhead @rcade:
I went looking for Greg Costikyan's game blog and web presence and they were both gone. Not cool, Internet.
So a few things are wrong with the web:
- Stuff disappears from it. People die or become disinterested in their
web presences, or decide to reorganize their servers.
- We should be able to host our own content. $MUCH/month, for lousy
upstream connections, and we still need a colo server or an additional
hosting plan.
- DNS is centralized.
I suspect that to fix this we may only need links to bittorrent hashes, and some mechanism for browsers to look inside .zip or .tgz files. Ideas?
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#Comment Re: made: 2014-03-20 02:41:33.796386+01 by:
ebwolf
Compliments of The WayBack Machine
#Comment Re: made: 2014-03-20 14:42:15.842446+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Yeah, but depending on a centralized service like that is a bad idea for the future.
#Comment Re: made: 2014-03-20 17:26:55.458233+01 by:
dexev
What was wrong with NNTP?
I mean, aside from the S/N ratio going through the floor?
I got my first connection (38K) in '94, early enough to see the way things used to be, but too late to really be a part of it.
As I've watched -- now from the inside, now from the out -- I don't see the
value that the modern internet is adding to our lives, compared to the cost.
I'm open to the possibility that I'm just a grumpy old man now, but aren't
lolcats the electronic equivalent of getting messed up on Mt. Dew and Spree?
#Comment Re: made: 2014-03-20 17:48:44.352378+01 by:
Ben Williams
I was thinking Freenet invented the distributed web 14 years ago but apparently it discards old, unpopular stuff in favor of the new hotness. We need a Freenet fork that promises to keep any file under a certain size forever, so we never lose another .txt, .html, .css, or .js file.
#Comment Re: made: 2014-03-20 22:21:05.853295+01 by:
Dan Lyke
I had an NNTP version of Flutterby for a while, it had two users: Me and Genehack.
The big issues I have with NNTP:
- Requires fixed IP addresses and an awful lot of configuration complexity.
- Doesn't do binary stuff well.
- Security of networks (waving dead chickens, anyone?).
I need to look at Freenet again, it probably does most of what I want...
#Comment Re: made: 2014-03-22 21:01:48.642391+01 by:
Shawn
I used the NNTP interface on occasion.
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