"You can get into a prison easier than you can get into a data center."

#DataCenter #AI #internet #fiber #video

Unter dem Vorwand von #Alterkontrollen zum #Jugendschutz scheint die autoritäre #EU nun ernst zu machen und möchte, dass sich Menschen zukünftig per Smartphone-App ausweisen, wenn sie das #Internet vollumfänglich nutzen möchten.

Darin sieht man dann nicht nur die Versuche der EU, die Anonymität im Internet gänzlich und zu Gunsten von #Überwachungsstaat und #Überwachungskapitalismis zu beerdigen, sondern wohl auch immer mehr Menschen zum Besitz von Smartphones zu zwingen. Dies wiederum entspringt wohl der Tendenz zur Zwangsdigitalisierung möglichst aller Lebensbereiche und Informationen, die in der Konsequenz dann nur noch per #Smartphone - und damit staatlich überwacht und kontrolliert - offen stehen sollen.

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-konzept-so-sollen-die-alterskontrollen-im-netz-ablaufen

1996: A YMCA employee spent an hour trying every phone line in the building to help get a family online.

2026: The family that once ran a phone cord to a 7-Eleven backroom now talks on platforms that eavesdrop on what we say.

What we lost when the internet changed: https://longreads.com/2026/09/22/family-road-trip-early-internet-90s/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Nineties #1990s #Internet #Web #Travel #RoadTrip #Nostalgia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/117333223064129957

Are you prepared to lose your internet connection?

#internet

"We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome."

Mark and Betsy Blondin launched a family travel blog in 1996 on an internet that no longer exists. They reflect on that journey—and the web we’ve lost—in this week's new Longreads essay: https://longreads.com/2026/09/22/family-road-trip-early-internet-90s/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Travel #Internet #RoadTrip #Nostalgia

Meta Petal is the first 1 Pbps subsea cable, US ↔ France, due in 2029. It uses 2-core fiber to double transatlantic capacity and is being built by NEC, Sumitomo Electric and Orange. 👉
https://www.cyberkendra.com/2026/09/meta-petal-petabit-subsea-cable.html

#meta #facebook #internet #underwaterinternet

“The authority issuing your client certificates will also have to issue post-quantum certificates before the end of 2030, the deadline the Australian Signals Directorate has set for retiring today's #cryptography.”

#ASD / #AustralianSignalsDirectorate / #PostQuantum / #Internet #certificates <https://securitybrief.com.au/story/public-certificate-change-puts-vpn-wi-fi-at-risk>

Keep the Internet free

We are not terrorists. Autistici.org is an infrastructure of dissent!

‚On August 26, 2026, the United States placed the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati on its terrorism sanctions list, accusing it of providing online services to violent groups. Since 2001 the collective has offered free email, hosting and other tools to activists, and it rejects the accusations entirely. Two days later its website disappeared from the internet — not because the machines were switched off, but because the address that leads people to them stopped working.‘

Join the campaign for a free internet!

Follow the case here!

https://keepitfree.ai/

Defend #AutisticiInventati @cavallette

#USA #Italy #Repression #Internet #TechnoFascism #BigTech

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Schwarzer Hintergrund weise große Beschriftung R*ESIST darunter autistici*org inventati*org (* jeweils in rot)

I don't know why but videos about lost, strange or unknown distrubing dark stuff from the early days of the web just fascinates me for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kklRAJCzUxk

#dark #darkcontent #earlyinternet #lostmedia #distrubingmedia #chillingscares #internet #internethistory #oldweb

AI is TERRIBLE for the #internet

If we like it or not, traffic has always been the currency on the web. Many news outlets and #journalists would not be able to do their work without it

A lot of this traffic was coming from search engines like #Google, again like it or not. Nowadays Google uses their AI to pull info from sites making visiting websites for info obsolete and in turn killing traffic and a lot of sites

For the love of the internet, please DO NOT use the #AI summary but browse!♥️

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/117286020053320946

It’s interesting that people who support age verification have to ask what the problem is. As if it was a big mystery.

Asking people to reveal their personally identification so they can use the internet isn’t a problem that should need to be explained. But since you asked…

1. Our data can not be protected online. Especially by every random person who has the means to buy a domain and pay for hosting.

2. Forcing identification is a barrier for many people. That’s exclusion. And in many cases ableism.

3. Age verification won’t keep kids from using technology. If their parents are that disconnected, they’ll help them through the gates and move on. Restricting access creates a hurdle, not an impasse.

4. Age verification puts the onus on people using the web instead of the people make parts of it horrible. We are victims of nefarious systems. We are not the problem. The systems are. That should be the focus of solutions.

#EUKidsAct #Privacy #Internet #InfoSec #IfYouHaveToAsk

Search Usenet newsgroup archives — text posts from 1981 to present…

https://www.usenet-rewind.com

#usenet #internet #online #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #commodore #amiga #IT #1980s #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

"Why would Gerhard Berger lend his name to the driest, cheapest-looking, and least commercial F1 video game ever made?"

Duncan Fyfe for Esses: https://esses.com/stories/who-can-solve-gerhard-bergers-f1-quiz

#Longreads #F1 #Formula1 #Racing #VideoGames #Internet

The internet is broken.

Many people feel that if they don't get likes, views, or comments, they've failed. I still vividly remember the days when I created my first website or updated Twitter via text message. It was great just being online, visibility wasn't even on our minds.

Commercial algorithms ruined the internet. Everything is filtered through them, and it has fundamentally changed how people think. Even dating has turned into a doomscrolling app on Tinder, browsing a catalog of people's traits. We no longer appreciate the natural things in life; instead, people constantly chase something better, never actually getting there.

It's sad that these days the Internet is mostly about boosting one's ego. We post only our best moments, even though we'll end up rotting in a coffin just like everyone else. Still, a thousand followers and a couple of likes are undeniably a bit comforting (note: I'm being sarcastic here).

We here on the Fediverse are different, though. We've accepted the natural way of things, and we don't expect every post to go viral. I just wish other people could see how the internet used to be.

#enshittification #Internet #SocialMedia

#ageverification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway. In the span of a few years, age verification went from an idea to standard practice on large parts of the #internet. 
https://www.theverge.com/policy/913038/age-verification-flaws
#privacy #personaldata

@EUCommission Right, well, I’ve registered small-web.eu and small-tech.eu as backups for now.

Thankfully, with what I’ve built this year, the Small Web doesn’t need TLDs to work (see https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/) but still, here’s hoping it doesn’t come to that because it will be a right hassle to move stuff over.

Buy, hey, better safe than sorry.

And I’m definitely reconsidering my choices when it comes to payment services/merchant of record for Catalyst (the free/open Small Web hosting app I’m building).

#US #fascism #ICAAN #TLDs #internet #web #BigTech #BigWeb #EU #SmallWeb #SmallTech #webNumbers

What’s being browsed on the internet? Bots reading web pages written by other bots, apparently. @Techcrunch has more on the substantial AI wave crashing onto the shores of the web:

https://flip.it/hCHlC1

#Tech #AI #Internet

Dennis E. Powell: "It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the #Starlink router, connected to the standard-sized Starlink 'dish' (it's a panel) that was flopped down haphazardly in my back yard." https://ofb.biz/sa1451

#Internet #Router #ElonMusk

#Confederate flags, although considered more problematic today in Britain as we interact with a wider variety folk from USA due to #Internet, stiil aren't entirely uncommon at #oldtimer / #car festivals this side of the pond due to their association with the Dukes of Hazzard and #rockabilly culture of 1970s/80s (those who were around then may remember the band #Matchbox ) - but Nazi material is definitely dodgy (its not even a display of WW2 era vehicles)

More so is the stallholder being aggressive when photos were taken of it, so they clearly knew if wasn't considered acceptable.

This is why I'm reluctant to go to #car related events in my region, even though there are many interesting ones..

https://archive.ph/1rtdv

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/117066506009210864

Bring back Web 1.0. Or maybe even Web 0.x.

#Privacy #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Internet

ADSL's Copper Miracle: How the telecom industry turned the doomed copper telephone wire into a usable asset with an asymmetric transmission profile and discrete multitone modulation, which provided the early fast (by 2000 standards) always-on Internet connection. (31 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phoeSk-qY8s

#Internet #Telecom #Broadband #TelecomHistory

We run several CompuServe 32 bit and 36 bit machines which you can connect to remotely. #internet #history #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Which software ecosystems have you been brave and courageous enough **to abandon completely**? Check all that apply

Please boost for #Science

#SocialMedia #Meta #Google #Microsoft #internet #web #apps #Bigtech

@therealitynetwork People also don't care much for #trust more than price.

Sometimes if a company far away enough and not in their faces, they are happy to pay up, give all their details in exchange for the #internet.

If it's not a person but a company "it's fine!"

Sad / true / evident. It's another provider re-selling with a random company name usually.

Most people don't care about trust more than the notion they to 'report it to someone' if it goes wrong, even if they don't know who!

If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine.

Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem…

https://wiby.org

#web #internet #online #RetroComputing #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #computing #IT #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

RE: https://mastodon.online/@drewdaniels/117023815109265512

"The Stone is an online game developed by web company Abject Modernity Internet Creations Inc. in 1995. The mystery game was created in 1996 but launched as a consumer product in 1997. People had to buy a physical stone containing the login credentials to the website, which was unheard of at the time."

#retrocomputing #1990s #internet

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@vga256 this reminds me of “The Stone” game and paraphernalia that we had in Winnipeg.
I didn’t know about the documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_(video_game)
The second parenthesis doesn’t seem to be working in the auto-hyperlink on Mastodon.
A friend of mine worked there briefly.

One of the film makers became a politician. I think I went to grade school with the other creator’s brother.

For a while I was keeping an MTS phone card with branding for the game.

Yes, this was a real thing.

Apple fixed a Hide My Email vulnerability after 404 Media reported that the feature had exposed some users’ real email addresses for about a year. 🍎🔒
The issue highlights the importance of privacy tools receiving timely security fixes to protect user data. 🛡️📧

🔗 https://www.404media.co/apple-fixes-hide-my-email-vulnerability-after-404-media-coverage/

#TechNews #Apple #iPhone #iOS #Privacy #Security #EmailPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection #Technology #DigitalRights #Encryption #FOSS #Internet #OpenSource

📄 I have published my summary of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) activities at #IETF126 in Vienna.

The report covers the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), the IRTF Open Meeting, and all 14 Research Groups—from AI networking and Internet architecture to routing, transport, privacy, sustainability, quantum networking, and more.

One aspect that makes the IRTF particularly valuable is its research model. Rather than organizing around individual publications, the IRTF is organized around long-lived research communities where researchers, engineers, implementers, operators, and standards experts collaboratively explore fundamental Internet challenges over many years.

At a time when AI is transforming how research is written, reviewed, and disseminated, sustained technical dialogue and open collaboration are becoming increasingly important.

🔗 https://dirk-kutscher.info/irtf/ietf-126/

#IRTF #IETF #Networking #Internet #Research #OpenStandards

Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner!

Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner!

🍪 https://killthecookiebanner.eu

#tracking #cookies #cookiebanner #eu #web #browser #internet #tracking #stop #privacy #privacymatters

#RevueDePressive
#Internet #Surveillance
« Arrêtez de tuer Internet » : la riposte citoyenne contre la vérification d'âge en ligne est lancée

> La Commission européenne a annoncé ce mercredi 22 juillet l’enregistrement de l’initiative citoyenne européenne « Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification », jugée juridiquement recevable.
https://www.01net.com/actualites/verification-dage-ligne-riposte-citoyenne-europeenne-officiellement-lancee.html

https://lesliensde.jeey.net/shaare/RoVQdw

Cloudflare launched Precursor, replacing many CAPTCHA checks with continuous behavioral analysis of mouse, typing, scrolling, and browser activity. 🖱️
The system aims to detect advanced bots while raising fresh privacy concerns over persistent session monitoring despite limited data collection. 🔒

🔗 https://nerds.xyz/2026/07/cloudflare-precursor-bot-detection/

#TechNews #Cloudflare #Privacy #CAPTCHA #BotDetection #WebSecurity #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Technology #Browser #AI #Internet #Security

I’m using ___ as a web browser on my phone:

#browsers #internet #mobileapps #web #phone #apple #google

🤪🤪🤪🤪💁‍♀️*My Internet because of the stormy atmosphere is frustratingly not working right!*I need to give it up for the day!☹️

#Bad #Internet #Disturbance #in #the #force

Dear @w3c @timbl
"we need to re-decentralise the #internet" - old but gold. Sad to see #w3c isn't confident showing #video and enabling community on the media it invented. I think you don't need my advice on how to do so.

Age verification plans: “The problem is platform design, not age”

The EU plans stricter rules for online youth protection. Marielle Findorff from vzbv explains why age checks are not the solution.

https://www.heise.de/en/background/Age-verification-plans-The-problem-is-platform-design-not-age-11364562.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #EU #Internet #IT #Netzpolitik #SocialMedia #Wirtschaft #news

#RUSSIAN HACKED #DOORBELL #CAMERAS TO TRACK #KYIV’S #WEAPONS DELIVERIES: On #July 10, #Dutch #intelligence agencies uncovered a large-scale Russian operation to hack into #civilian cameras connected to the #internet along weapons supply #routes to #Ukraine.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/07/11/8043531/

When We Create a Hostile Offline Environment for Teens, They Take Refuge Online

One of the things people talk about with age verification is that teens are sucked in and need to get off. That's not what's happening.

https://www.freezenet.ca/when-we-create-a-hostile-offline-environment-for-teens-they-take-refuge-online/

#Censorship #Editorial #News #ChatRoom #Internet #kids #social #SocialMedia #teens

@mspro

Chef von Wikipedia (ein traditioneller Frauenjob) ist Bernadette Meehan, zuvor Foreign Service Officer, Botschafterin, line officer für Außenministerin Clinton, Mitglied des National Security Council NSC, chief international officer der Obama Foundation, heute mit der Aufgabe die Mitmachenden von Wikipedia vor staatlicher und nichtstaatlicher Verfolgung zu beschützen.

@wikipedia @wikimediaDE @magnusmanske @wikimediafoundation @Data_is

#predictionMarket #wikipedia #wikimedia #internet #regression #GLAM #pfadgelegenheit #tendenz #besserwisser #besserwisserei #valueCreation #zeitalterDesEnzyklopädismus #Enzyklopädie #socialMedia #Grokipedia

About Cloudflare https://sillypedia.org/cloudflare/ #Cloudflare #Internet #Wikipedia

@cwebber is flying to DWeb Camp on a Hooting owl with a platoon of Goblins to introduce “@spritely: painting a new vision for the Internet”

🦉 https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DXJRXY/

➡️ Check out the full schedule here: https://dwebcamp.org/schedule

#DWeb #DWebCamp #Spritely #Goblins #Hoot #Guile #Internet #decentralization

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A graphic with Christine’s profile picture, her talk title, and photo of a forest.

LE toujours formidable, indispensable Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic : Surveiller les enfants pour les protéger de la surveillance
⤵️
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/#to-save-it

(traduction en image via le tout aussi excellent Hubert Guillaud @danslesalgorithmes ici https://danslesalgorithmes.net/stream/ne-leur-donnez-jamais-votre-visage/ )

(effectivement la stupidité intrinsèque de l'argument sécuritaire de la surveillance de masse rappelle ce fameux slogan contre la guerre du Vietnam en image)

#AgeVerification
#Internet
#Tech
#Surveillance
#Capitalisme

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« Cela dépasse la farce. Après tout, quels que soient les préjudices que l’Internet infligerait aux enfants — et il est indéniable que certains enfants souffrent de leur usage d’Internet —, tout commence par la surveillance. Vos enfants ne peuvent pas être ciblés par des algorithmes sans les données de surveillance utilisées pour les cibler. Ils ne peuvent pas être orientés vers des contenus faisant l’apologie de l’anorexie ou des forums d’une misogynie extrême sans que ce mécanisme d’orientation ne soit amorcé par l’espionnage commercial. « Toute tentative de protéger les enfants contre les dangers du numérique devrait commencer par les préserver de la surveillance en ligne ; or, nous faisons exactement l’inverse aujourd’hui. Après avoir échoué pendant des décennies à adopter et faire respecter des mesures de protection de la vie privée sur Internet, ces mêmes gouvernements battent tous les records de vitesse pour faire adopter des lois de « vérification de l’âge » qui rendent la protection de la vie privée illégale. » La surveillance en ligne nuit à tous, rappelle Doctorow. Elle sert à vous fourbir de la désinformation, vous refuser un prêt, un emploi, augmenter les prix que vous payez et réduire les salaires qu’on vous propose. « On ne peut pas protéger les enfants de la surveillance en ligne en les espionnant. »

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Photo d'une manif sur un campus US contre la guerre au Vietnam en 1969. Une jeune femme porte une pancarte : Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity

The US Congress is considering legislation that cripples privacy and security online, under the guise of seeking a silver bullet that will “keep kids safe.”

https://youtu.be/TIqzmatFMUQ

#privacy #security #internet #law

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet

#HackerNews #privacy #internet #security #surveillance #digitalrights

KIDS Act package in Congress combines KOSA and related bills, pushing platforms toward broad age verification and user age inference rules. 🔒
KOSA and SAFE BOTS provisions may pressure services to verify users' ages, impacting encrypted messaging and platform design choices. 🔐

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

#TechNews #KIDSAct #Kids #KOSA #AgeVerification #Surveillance #Encryption #Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #Policy #TechPolicy #Internet #Governance

RED ALERT! The KIDS Act (H.R.7757) is being teed up for a vote in the House next week! This bill is an omnibus style package which includes horrible bills like the Kids Online Safety Act and the SCREEN Act! Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

Reading the latest version of the bill and it seems like House is sticking with their version of KOSA. This will set up a showdown between the House and the Senate as both chambers have dug in their heels regarding their version of KOSA. I doubt either chamber will fully get their way.

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Censorship #AgeVerification #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #Internet #SocialMedia #UnitedStates #USA #US

https://linuxiac.com/cloudflare-unveils-pact-to-help-websites-fight-bots-without-captcha/

Cloudflare along with Mozilla, Google, and more are introducing PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) A way to identify legitimate traffic to a website (as opposed to bots/scraping) without relying on CAPTCHA's or using privacy invasive tracking

#Privacy #Security #internet #Browsers

Q: What animal or nonhuman being do you most identify with?

A: An ecosystem.

Spend some time with #CoryDoctorow in our latest Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/06/17/questionnaire-cory-doctorow/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Books #Authors #Tech #Interview #Internet

New blogpost, primarily for people providing Internet services in the UK who need to DNS (or otherwise) block domains for sanctions purposes:

"Internet services sanctions (June 2026)"

There are now *94* Internet services sanctions (up from 37 in January) and, for the first time, a punycode domain.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/06/internet-services-sanctions-june-2026/

#UK #Internet #law #telecoms #blog

UK plans to ban social media for under-16s by 2027, covering major platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X under new safety rules. 📵
The policy includes mandatory age verification, possible overnight curfews, and stricter limits on livestreaming and stranger contact features. 🔐

🔗 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/uk-to-ban-social-media-for-kids-under-16-may-impose-overnight-curfews/

#TechNews #Europe #EU #UK #SocialMedia #Privacy #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #DigitalRights #CyberSecurity #Policy #Safety #Kids #Children #Internet #Governance

What makes something "web-based" in 2026? @ricmac writes about today's tech ecosystem, and if the web is still truly made of people.

https://flip.it/LXjg7t

#Technology #Internet #ArtificialIntelligence

#Surviellance #Internet #Technology #CdnPoli
#Privacy

From 2026-6-18

"One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Bill C-36 Modernizes Canada's Privacy Law, Then Delays It to 2030"
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/billc36/

The UK plans to ban under-16s from major social media platforms by spring 2027, with age checks that could require more biometric and identity data. 🔒
Australia’s similar ban has seen many teens bypass restrictions, raising questions about privacy and the effectiveness of age-based enforcement. ⚖️

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/uk-social-media-ban-privacy

#TechNews #UK #SocialMedia #Privacy #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #Proton #DataProtection #Surveillance #DigitalRights #Security #Policy #Technology #Internet #Freedom

🆕 blog! “Two Way TV - product photos of 1997's hottest gadget”

Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about early forms of Interactive TV.

I saw a demo of "Two Way TV". A flimsy grey box which (somehow) integrated with your OnDigital TV Box and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/two-way-tv-product-photos-of-1997s-hottest-gadget/
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#BBC #history #internet #retrotech #tv

"Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable."

Bridget Read for New York/Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/your-digital-self-is-vulnerable.html

#Longreads #Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Technology #Internet

Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever

This article is more than 16 years old
In October 1969, a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was born..

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-40-history-arpanet

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #press #writers #blog #readers #fediverse #internet #archive #history #asitwasbefore

Right.

Internet safety / #OnlineSafetyAct in the UK is clearly going to be the topic of the day.

Child protection is essential, but I am highly sceptical of the proposed approach.

Keeping to my "more than three toots should be blogpost" rule, here's a brief - probably entirely as-expected - analysis from me:

https://neilzone.co.uk/content/files/2026-06-15_online_safety_phase_2.html

#UK #Internet #blog

"In December 1993, the New York Times published an article about the “limitless opportunity” of the early internet. It painted a picture of a digital utopia: clicking a mouse to access NASA weather footage, Clinton’s speeches, MTV’s digital music samplers, or the status of a coffee pot.."

https://www.goodinternetmagazine.com/the-web-we-lost/

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #press #writers #blog #readers #fediverse #internet #archive #history #asitwasbefore

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#asitwasbefore

Dial up the old internet
https://dialuptheoldinternet.org/

An ode to the old Internet, a guide to digital archiving, a celebration of retro tech.

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #webzine #indie #press #writers #blog #readers #fediverse #internet #archive #history #protocols #creativity #asitwasbefore

The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.

A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #webzine #indie #press #writers #readers #fediverse #internet #history #protocols #creativity #asitwasbefore

#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #meme

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Meme, showing a continuous circle of data breach messages from corporations… Ahaha you're not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach. Your data is probably for sale online now. That means someone could easily impersonate you. Going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure its you.

Cryptography as a tool of power
https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-as-a-tool-of-power/

#cryptography #history #IT #tech #privacy #Internet #tech #IT #science #STEM #computing #AI #quantumComputing #quantumPhysics #inventions #innovation #negativepid

Behold! The net cop gives expensive advice! You are basically requiring that I pay for yet another ERC20 cryptocurrency token just to send text messages.

From the Autonomi site:

"WHEN SOMEONE (A PERSON OR A COLLECTIVE) UPLOADS DATA THEY PAY A FEE TO DO SO."

"+1 Million tokens on offer for early contributors."

"MaidSafe are the team behind Autonomi ..."

Newscard has several selling points:

0. It's not for sale. Try that with Autonomi, Maidsafe, and a thousand others.
1. It is free, unlike your suggested cryptocurrency pump.
2. My solution is simple and elegant - naming small text files for retrieval.
3. Newscard uses existing infrastructure already in operation for decades.
4. Many mature client softwares and terminal emulators already exist for the task.
5. Newscard doesn't require investment or payment.
6. Newscard doesn't have an integrated, useless payment system.
7. Newscard is ANONYMOUS and uses The Onion Network by default.
8. Users won't lose their money when using Newscard.

And my Newscard solution doesn't require taking zillions of dollars from people who will likely never see a return on their token investment. Storage token sale schemes are a dime a dozen. I can't believe you think I have the credulity to swallow such a scheme.

For almost two decades running countless crews have claimed that they will, 'decentralize the Internet' if you give them your money.

Newsflash: The Internet already is decentralized. Decentralization is a basic part of the design of the Internet. It already routes around damage and censorship by default. Why do I need to pay for a crypto token for something that already exists? Decentralized Usenet has been in continuous operation for decades. I'm already using the 'decentralized Internet' for the Newscard protocol. I've been using the 'decentralized Internet' since forever! It doesn't need to be decentralized by crypto pump schemes. The Internet is already decentralized.

So we already have a decentralized Internet where data storage is abundant and cheap. And these token pumpers want to set themselves up as gatekeepers so we have to pay them to get the tokens to store our data. That is not decentralization. That is the essence of a centralized monetary gatekeeper!

You accused me of misusing Usenet. Yet I am only doing what people have done with Usenet for decades--posting encrypted messages. I'm not misusing Usenet. You're misusing my patience for cryptocurrency dumps and re-hashed token sales strategies.

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