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by TeaDude 2246 days ago
I very much like this idea and have toyed around with it in my head for years.

MAYBE regular HTML and CSS could be allowed for some authentic geocities design but no JavaScript whatsoever.

Being able to run client side code has a lot of benefits but currently it's an unholy mess that would require a complete replacement (Which means depreciating basically everything currently online) to fix and even then the mere presence of client run code has been a double edged sword for years with resource hogging pages and nasty tracking/virus scripts. HTML5 has mitigated a lot of the need for stuff that would have previously needed JavaScript or Flash such as video so I don't think it'll be missed that badly.

E: Just realized that I pretty much described the tor default browser
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rv-de 2246 days ago
I think at the base of the development the protocols should be based. Where they are consumed is then up to experimentation.
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TeaDude 2246 days ago
Fair enough. I'm just spitballing stuff for potential future client software developers should someone ever go ahead with this idea.
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rv-de 2246 days ago
Same here. I wouldn't be surprised if there are already many projects aiming into that direction.

F.x.: https://prism-break.org/en/all/#mesh-networks, there's IRC, XMPP, ...

But those projects mostly seem to try to establish alternative internets / protocols mostly based on the conventional internet.

The active enforcement of low-bandwidth-use would in my opinion be the core concept. As soon as media can be transferred it's going down hill in many ways. I think usenet died this way. c/p, content sharing, viruses, spam, ... all that crap

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auggierose 2246 days ago
I don't know what spitballing is but it sounds disgusting.
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TeaDude 2246 days ago
A common term used in software development for "throwing crap at the wall"

My instincts tell me it was coined in the 90's amid the disgusting/edgy phase after the long "dad jokes" phase of the years before. (Unix, byte, nybble ...the list continues)

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0xdeadb00f 2246 days ago
> A common term used in software development for "throwing crap at the wall"

it's quite a common term outside of software development too.

Edit: googling the term, it seems to have been coined in as early as the 1930s: https://grammarist.com/idiom/spitballing/

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