How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-06-24-n15.html

by xaverius • 16 years ago

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kksm19820117• 16 years ago

Somehow, I don't see this happening; there's too much of implied control for this to be a realistic scenario.

mseebach• 16 years ago

It's oddly appropriate that the first comment to this is [deleted]

thecircusb0y2• 16 years ago

I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 4 years old and I loved it. I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I laughed.

This scared the shit out of me.

perplexes• 16 years ago

Seconded. It made me feel the same as reading 1984. I hate the future.

patrickk• 16 years ago

Why does the future always have to be negative? (philosophical question) If you look at history, things generally improve over time

VMG• 16 years ago

reminded me of brain jail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JILWKaQgUC0

edw519• 16 years ago

Setting up your RealIdentity is easy, as your computer (MacOS 15 or ChromeOS7 and higher) will automatically connect...

Hmmm...no mention of Microsoft. Does this mean I'll have to upgrade from ie6/xp before 2025?

pyre• 16 years ago

We don't like to talk about the great MicroPocalypse of 2015... dark days... Let's think happy thoughts instead! ;)

barber• 16 years ago

Does this mean real.com crawled from it's grave? Millions of people tricked into buying RealIdentity Plus?

gwern• 16 years ago

It's a reference to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act

prodigal_erik• 16 years ago

On the bright side, maybe all those videos from the nineties will have finished buffering.

crististm• 16 years ago

"Why exactly is it bad for people to badmouth their governments or big companies online?"

Funny enough, there's a discussion in our local press these days about the "Press" considered to be a vector of insecurity to government/local agencies (e.g. they badmouth justice for being a mock-up).

shabda• 16 years ago

Needs a think of the children argument to be more convincing.

rgrieselhuber• 16 years ago

Ok, that was depressing.

jtnaka• 16 years ago

They hate our freedoms... Never forget.

jpwagner• 16 years ago

LOL...(it has also replaced Bless You as a reply to when someone sneezes)

pistoriusp3• 16 years ago

In South Africa we've got a completely free, community driven and supported Wireless User Group comprising of ~2000 nodes.

Whilst it's certainly not the Internet I've seen a marked improvement and understanding in creating large, relatively free networks. (You still have to buy your own equipment.)

One can only hope that by 2025 the technology will have increased to such a point that it'll be powerful (no line of site required), cheap and abundant. (And in effect, uncontrollable by a single entity, corporation or organization.)

A bit more about the WUG: (http://ptawug.co.za)

They use standard 802.11g/n (5.8/2.4 GHz) Wi-Fi equipment. And mostly Mikrotik router hardware and software.

I'm just a user - So my information might be a bit wrong...

alex_c• 16 years ago

(You still have to buy your own equipment.)

If a society has regressed as much as the one depicted in the article, it's not inconceivable that the necessary equipment would be made illegal (or at least require a license).

jeebusroxors2• 16 years ago

A friend of mine has been interested in setting something like this up in the states. Is there a website documenting the process/pitfalls?

pistoriusp3• 16 years ago

I'm just an end user - So I don't know much about the process. Here's the project's website: http://ptawug.co.za

Hoff• 16 years ago

Search the googlephant for wifi mesh setup or related terms.

Zaak• 16 years ago

Take a look at http://www.personaltelco.net/

It may not be exactly what you're interested in, but they have set up a large amount of equipment and may have information that would be useful to you.

mortenjorck• 16 years ago

This is utterly fascinating to me. What kind of protocols does it use? What kind of use cases have sprung up around it and what roles is it playing in peoples' lives? Is it more of a ham radio kind of enthusiast thing or is it working its way into the general community?

pistoriusp3• 16 years ago

It's standard 802.11g/n (5Ghz antennas) - check out http://ptawug.co.za for more information.

drtse4• 16 years ago

And what about the multitude of darknets with Petabyte/s of bandwidth?

shabble• 16 years ago

Nice (but quite scary) article. Reminds me a lot of the 'if the internet were like cable TV/mobile phone pricing' image I saw a while ago: http://imgur.com/5RrWm.png

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