Going Back To The Past of the Internet

*no comment* writes "deadly.org currently has a story about a new grassroot network springing up. It consists of free shell access, and is trying to revitalize the olden days of the Internet. Free speech, free information are the key features, but I wonder if this is jsut another free DDoS drone as well."

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Way to ruin his whole goal...

[the Man in Black]

I didn't want to get slashed so I avoided that like the plague.

Thanks again,
Scott

Well, there goes that idea.

The internet days of yore...

[da3dAlus]

Where pr0n was free and the only pop-ups were in your pants.

Re:The internet days of yore...

[Anonymous Coward]

I must be from a different era. I recall that pr0n FTP sites were rare, and those that existed were guarded secrets, because as soon as they became public (such as by somone posting the FQDN to Usenet) they'd collapse under the sudden surge of traffic.

Now, instead of pr0n (which is in abundance), it is rapacious interest in geek news that brings machines down to their needs.

Is this that thing they call progress?

Gone are the days...

[Bunjo]

... when those "I'm Heidi, want to make mad love to me and my college friends?" messages still had a one in a million chance of being real. Where does the time go?

Re:Gone are the days...

[Anonymous Coward]

Even when you had a 1 in a million chance, Heidi was 58 years old and her college friends graduated in 1963. Her friends were also male.

Oy.

[American AC in Paris]

new grassroot network springing up...olden days of the Internet...Free speech, free information are the key features, but I wonder if this is jsut another free DDoS drone as well.

...what, you think they've already set up their own version of Slashdot?

Best free shell and seaglass access

[Anonymous Coward]

Any of your nearby coastal beaches has shells aplenty.

Because

[www.sorehands.com]

The big boys will buy laws to prevent it. They will claim, if unregulated mediums are allowed to exist [child molesters | pirates | hackers | terorists] will use it to [destroy | bankrupt | harm ] [society | people | children | industries].

Don't forget, it is to protect [children | innovation | freedom | life].

Re:Because

[edrugtrader]

how can child molesters bankrupt children?? charge them money for the candy they entice them with?

i think your regexp needs some work

Re:Going Back To The Past of the Internet...

[brer_rabbit]

14.

Re:Wonderful times...

[Amazing Quantum Man]

You had an 8088? Why back in the day, we didn't have no fancy 8088s! We had our fingers! And tin cans and string! And we were glad to have them, too! Sure, it took forever to get the latest pr0n, but once we found someone to go into the drugstore for us, then we had it. Of course, we had to walk fifteen miles through a raging snowstorm to get it, uphill, both ways!
You young whippersnappers have it so easy... rassum-fassum-mumble-grumble
</OLD-GEEZER-RANT>

I would love to bring back

[elixx]

all of the old protocols which have been phased
out by the sprawling Interweb... Anyone remember
Gopher and its Veronica search, WAIS databases, Archie searches?

ah, those were the days.