[BNM] [OT] Take Back the Web

[Tom Hume]

I *heart* Fidonet. It's where I started out on this comms thang, and  
when you compare what was achieved with such rubbish technology (2400  
baud modems, midnight lines from BT, ST/Amiga level tech) compared to  
what *hasn't* been achieved with the "community mesh network" efforts  
of today... well, for me it highlights that technical progress can  
only take you so far.

On 2 Oct 2006, at 16:27, Dave Phelan wrote:

> Now, don't get me wrong, I think normal people engaging in normal
> activities unmediated by big business is a good thing. But presenting
> a workshop on grass-roots use of new web technologies as some sort of
> effort to return to some halcyon ideal before big business took over
> the internet is at best misunderstanding history.
>
> You want to get out from under the corporate shackles of the Internet?
> You've got to start with the undlying infrastructure. Start building a
> next-generation Fidonet. Otherwise, your packets are going to be
> traversing the  very same big-business default-free backbone as
> everybody else.
>
> Anyone fancy discussing this without insulting my mother?

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