If enough money could be scratched together from a bunch of LARPers for that, you faggots do know "the Internet" is actually constructed from individual leased lines that telecoms are more than happy to sell you, right?
Interesting thought, but rarely attempted in anything resembling a user friendly way.
THIS I'll add that many competing and rapidly evolving proprietary pieces of telecom software, such as FirstClass and Hotline, were built in a simple and modular way that allowed 3rd-party clients and APIs to work. The transition away from such openness was surprisingly recent, with for instance Skype going from a P2P protocol with a public API and active support for 3rd-party clients accompanying their simple and fully native 1st-party client, to a centralized botnet system with no API and a bloated web/Electron client.
Agreed on your thoughts about web apps that actually need a full scripting runtime (I would add the stipulation of tiered limits on execution, in total operations allowed between interactions, and total operations per second, so multiple background tabs of a supposedly humble nature couldn't choke your CPU to death).
But IMHO that's massive overkill for nearly all webpages, whose featuresets are similar enough that a simple database-oriented protocol for GUI WIMP CRUD screens would cover 99.999% of use cases. Everything from web fora or social networks, to stores, to media streaming hosts, to wikis, to news, are all essentially identical: No user-side scripting necessary
Joshua Lee
Leased lines cost thousands of dollars per foot and require constant maintenance. Even then, you don't actually own them, because the government can come in and tell you to start censoring people or else. Each node in a meshnet could cost as low as a couple dollars if the volume was brought up, and that could cover several hundred feet depending on the power of the antenna. lasers would be much more expensive per unit, but would cover much larger distance, and would be much harder to detect and censor.
Even silly stuff like showing a post when you hover over the id requires scripting. You could have a swath of built-in widgets that devs could call for doing stuff like this, but the only way websites can evolve is if you allow devs to write custom widgets.
Jaxon Ramirez
Is it possible at all to utilize existing wired telephone lines in people's homes but without needing a subscription to the telco? like a text-only really minimal BBS/messageboard type thing that ran off of electrical signals sent over telephone lines that interfaces with some device made with shit from radioshack/jameco/etc
Christian Thomas
Losing that would be acceptable to me- as the only really tolerable "evolutions" I've seen over the years are browser games which easily could have just been downloaded directly, and video sharing sites. Paring it down to the bare essentials would be a welcome change to needing a gigabyte+ of ram just to display some text and images.
Phone phreaking, but that's pretty illegal.
Grayson Perez
I was briefly in the phreaking scene but I wasn't around at its peak sadly. Seems like most of it now is just dialing into PBXs and guessing voicemail PINs for the Hell of it. Regardless of legality it would be interesting to see what could be done
Owen Lewis
No, because nowadays telephone copper lines are just a cable going to a glorified VoIP endpoint that then routes the call through optical fiber to another endpoint. A lot of the telephone network actually runs over the Internet and not the other way around. Even if it does the switching is fully automatic. You could physically tap into a friends line that runs in front of your house, though, I guess. Also sometimes you get crossover between lines, could probably get some data in-between.
Not if you have a protocol made for it, then you can write a client that does that for you without running the BO's shitty code. This. Plus the point would be to use your own resilient infrastructure, otherwise you might as well make use of the existing IP networks. Not to mention there isn't enough interest to make dedicated fiber lines break-even.
Could be done with the existing web standards, but it's not done because the browser devs are marketing jews who only care about making normalfag's computers consume 400 watts just to show some flashy animations so the nigger cattle think the site looks really "professional" and clicks on the ads.
Yeah that would be better than what we have now but still doesn't enforce interoperability and standardized APIs. Gee, I sure love having to run a Windows 10 clone on this virtual machine thing called a "web browser" just so I can check up how much the jews are depositing on my good goy account for moping floors.
Asher Wright
You own them just as much as you own your house, or your LAN, or a business owns its campus intranet and site-to-site WAN. Because that's exactly those are. There's a reason fiber optic and coax are the primary backbone of telecom, y'know. For a while, but if it ever became a real issue, it would be trivial to jam, detect, and attack, just like pirate radio. Moreover, unlike wirelines, RF actually is inside government's remit to keep uncongested. I suppose the same isn't true of freespace lasers, but those have questionable availability. Basically every DE's GUI toolkit since the '80s has had such features. That didn't stop normal desktop software from evolving in the days when devs still gave heed to the HIGs.
I was thinking of something more like existing desktop vs. mobile profiles CSS supports. So for instance, if you were using a humbler system, it would load an alternate script the webdev provided for such users. And it would have teeth, so the JS VM would just halt the offending script if it tried to exceed its allowance. Perhaps the lost art of trivial optimizations could be rediscovered for such practices to continue.
Why do I always read that crap? The only thing that still needs JS is live updates. Rest can be done with CSS if you're clever about it. What uses live updates? Videostreams, chats, etc. (Things you don't find often on the web.)
Jackson Collins
de404ing and also bumping
Caleb Price
Not really relevant but since the thread is at the top of the catalog anyways worth mentioning, Musk just launched 60 Internet sats linked by laser beams between them and Ku phased arrays to Earth in a single rocket. Probably no way to pirate it, unlike the older sats, because of public key encryption, so really kind of the directv of Internet access, but the laser stuff is interesting. I guess you could buy pre-paid cards and only give out your rough location, if they offer that payment method.
