[joebergeron]

Me and a friend came up with a similar idea of a sort of distributed file system implemented across a huge array of blog comment sections. Of course you’d need a bunch of replication and fault tolerance and the ability to automatically scrape for new blogs to post spammy-looking comments on, but I thought it was a pretty funny and neat idea when we came up with it.

[jmkni]

I heard about a subreddit a while ago, where every post/comment was a random string. It was speculated at the time that something similar was going on.

[xamuel]

It's even more interesting to think about this in the context of preserving banned information for future generations. For example, if all the countries in the world united to ban the New Testament. But you eventually realize the ephemeral nature of the net will probably prevent it from fulfilling such long-term data-archiving roles and you're better off burying manuscripts deep underground.

[pestaa]

The thought of a distributed MySQL cluster accessed over various versions of WordPress-as-a-database-layer just makes me happy and confused.

[solotronics]

Even scarier than that would be a Turing complete language where the code is stored and memory is written to comments sections. The actual execution could be done by reading, execution function, and writing comments to store working memory and results. I guess with cryptographic encryption you could even hide what your doing.

[dogma1138]

So UseNet?