Wayback Machine is now dropping right wing sites - the book burning is well underway. Hail your new fascist information overlords.

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[–]Intuit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

No central servers; content stored on users' machines. Like torrents, but more suited for quick access of pages.

[–]shakadevirgem 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is this the usenet?

[–]TyranaSoreWristWreck 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

LOL. "The" Usenet. It's just called Usenet. And that's not what he means. Usenet definitely uses servers.

[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Usenet is pretty centralized these days. But yeah, good example of the tech already existing, even allowing discussions.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Freenet?