My concern is if something like this is to be a viable alternative to the internet, it needs to overcome distance problems for a number of reasons, including initial low-user adoption, but also, as it (theoretically) grows, geographic barriers such as oceans or other uninhabited or minimally inhabited areas.
Dont get me wrong, I don't want to abandon the current internet, but much like with dot win, having a lifeboat of sorts would be a good idea, especially if certain fascistic elements within governments get their way...
Most people here in the US rarely communicate with anything outside the US on the internet. Almost every single website I use is here. Everyone I know is here. So communications across oceans don't have to be constant.
For the US to contact Europe via wifi networks, you merely need some satellite dish wifi relays across Alaska to Russia and then across Russia to Europe. If that's what it came down to, it could be made to happen.
Also, even if the internet as it exists is taken down, the undersea cables will still be there. All that is needed is to secure access to the cable landing points.
It would be a big job, so we might bring the internet back up on our own terms more quickly than starting a whole new system, other than for local areas.
Communicate maybe, but there are a lot of other services and sites in foreign countries it'd be a shame to lose... (coughpiecoughcoughratcoughbeicoughcoughcough)
Besides while we certainly need to focus on ourselves first, if we can help foreignbros along the way, so much the better...
even if the internet as it exists is taken down, the undersea cables will still be there
I'm less worried about the internet getting shut down and more worried about it becoming the hugbox the left so desperately wants everything to be, honestly...
If the SHTF, I'd hardly be worried about some foreign website being gone. I'd have more pressing needs. I have enough computer files of various types to keep me occupied for decades.
lol, I've used similar before.
My concern is if something like this is to be a viable alternative to the internet, it needs to overcome distance problems for a number of reasons, including initial low-user adoption, but also, as it (theoretically) grows, geographic barriers such as oceans or other uninhabited or minimally inhabited areas.
Dont get me wrong, I don't want to abandon the current internet, but much like with dot win, having a lifeboat of sorts would be a good idea, especially if certain fascistic elements within governments get their way...
Most people here in the US rarely communicate with anything outside the US on the internet. Almost every single website I use is here. Everyone I know is here. So communications across oceans don't have to be constant.
For the US to contact Europe via wifi networks, you merely need some satellite dish wifi relays across Alaska to Russia and then across Russia to Europe. If that's what it came down to, it could be made to happen.
Also, even if the internet as it exists is taken down, the undersea cables will still be there. All that is needed is to secure access to the cable landing points.
It would be a big job, so we might bring the internet back up on our own terms more quickly than starting a whole new system, other than for local areas.
Communicate maybe, but there are a lot of other services and sites in foreign countries it'd be a shame to lose... (coughpiecoughcoughratcoughbeicoughcoughcough)
Besides while we certainly need to focus on ourselves first, if we can help foreignbros along the way, so much the better...
I'm less worried about the internet getting shut down and more worried about it becoming the hugbox the left so desperately wants everything to be, honestly...
If the SHTF, I'd hardly be worried about some foreign website being gone. I'd have more pressing needs. I have enough computer files of various types to keep me occupied for decades.
fair enough, lmao.