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Wikileaks: The first full-scale pitched battle between Government and the Open Web
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I'm seriously considering setting up a local server, to serve DHCP with a wifi router set to ad-hoc. Not as a gateway to anywhere else, but to run as a BBS local service.
Any and every DNS lookup would point to the server, with some small number of ads for local services that I like. My ISP would throw a fit if I put a gateway in, so I won't do that.
I could see that as an "alternative" method of content delivery, but it's very very local in nature. Not quite the same thing as an alternative 'Net.
Any and every DNS lookup would point to the server, with some small number of ads for local services that I like. My ISP would throw a fit if I put a gateway in, so I won't do that.
I could see that as an "alternative" method of content delivery, but it's very very local in nature. Not quite the same thing as an alternative 'Net.
There are still darknets ...
Darknets...is the coolest word. She lurked in the damp tunnels of the darknets...
Sort of related to the topic, one of my fave stories:
Quoting: Odessa Office Equipment is my favorite WISP (Wireless ISP) success story, because its founder and owner, Marlon Schafer beat Paul Allen at turning a profit selling wireless Internet. You may recall the heady days of the new millennium, when Mr. Allen was pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Metricom's Ricochet network, which wound up declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and was eventually sold for just over eight million dollars. Gosh knows you can't blame a billionaire for trying, and if I had that much money to play with I hope I would also have grand ambitions, and not just spend my days filling my swimming pool with hundred-dollar bills to wallow in.
But while the big boys were flinging big wads of money all over the place, Mr. Schafer took out a $10,000 loan, stuck an antenna on top of his grain silo, signed up ten paying customers, and has been profitable ever since. http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.ph...
thats very cool TC, thanks for sharing.
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