A conspiracy newsletter, printed on actual paper and mailed say once a month.
Obviously the internet makes the news a lot faster moving but with so much censorship its problematic.
And the newsletter could have deeper articles, the type of stuff that gets buried or scrubbed from search engines, like about the Payseurs or other esoteric topics that are impossible to google properly.
Could ask for a small donation to cover postage and supplies. A PO box and youre in business.
Just a thought, feel free to shoot me down with why it wouldn't work.
Sort of like Bill Coopers CAJI for the modern era
Remember the early Internet days when BBS was the big thing? People would regularly connect to it via modem, download all the messages and upload their posts/comments?
I think we can bring that back. Of course, no need for modems, but small communities of old-style forums where a limited number of like minded people discuss specific topics of interest.
Its a lot like newsletters, but slightly more modernised, and much easier to manage and less expensive.
Oh yeah I was heavily into BBS back in the day. Trade Wars 2002 and legend of the red dragon were cool games you could play on them.
I also fondly remember the hacking stuff you could order by mail out of the back of magazines. We had pamphlets on building your own pirate TV station etc and a friend and I even ordered a patent about how to keep a severed head alive to show to our AP psych teacher who didn't think it was real lol
Yeah good old times! The two things I miss from 80s - Boredom and difficulty in finding information.
People think these are bad things, but boredom is what used to drive as kids to try new things and come up with new ideas. Difficulty in finding information made the information you found much more valuable. It also made sure you focused on one information at a time ensuring you understood it fully and deeply rather than get distracted by a million things.
Right, there was no getting distracted and going off in another direction back then lol
I want a backyard tv station! I already have a severed head kept alive. He pretends to live in the White House.
It was way beyond the comprehension or ability of a couple soldering iron savvy teens 30 years ago, even with a dad who did electronics and had all kinds of stuff to use. The pirate TV station, I mean, not the severed head
Bulletin board systems were way before we had internet.
BTW, you can buy a tiny modem that's inside a USB dongle.
Computer Shopper used to have thousands of BBS listings. I would be up late at night trying a lot of them. Does anyone here remember Rusty n Edie? They were bigtime, and I think they had over a hundred incoming phone lines and thousands of files (girls and bootleg software mostly).
The only mode of electronic communication I used before Internet was Ham Radio. So I guess I missed all the Rusty n Edie fun :)
Maybe we should go back to building home-brew BBB. Perhaps when we have the possible Internet blackout, who knows, phone lines might still be up!
Research online. There are tutorials and free BBS software online. There are still some boards available, and there are lists online. Some of them are also available through the internet while it still works.
I didn't get into ham radio, except listening in on a classic Radio Shack communications receiver. There are still scheduled nets on shortwave.
Exactly, none of the content would be available in any web form so no crawling. You wont get after you login and download it, but it will be in offline format. Invitation will be via codes and a person takes responsibility for those they invite.
And having a monthly news letter sort of "best of" would be a great addition to this. IP address capture is a problem, however this could be solved by allowing each user to run their own server that does periodic syncs, so they can connect to their own trusted server.
With the hardcopy newsletter, the postal address would be a big issue. If the provider gets raided and bad guys get hold of the address list, its much more scarier than losing IP addresses.