Comment on Can we create a new Internet ?
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
The internet hasn't changed and is still the same Internet from the 90s. We're all still using TCP/IP to communicate. A network device from 1993 would have no issue connecting to a network from 2023 thanks to backwards compatibility.
The problem is that everyone decided to congregate around the same four websites and the same web browser. You can, you know, stop using them anytime and seek alternatives RIGHT NOW that sti exist. You're here already, so that's a start.
TCP has been amended in backwards incompatible ways multiple times since 1993. See e.g. RFCs 5681, 2675, and 7323 as examples.
Plus, speaking TCP/IP isn’t enough to let you to use the web, which is what most people think of when you say “Internet”. That 1993 device is going to have trouble speaking HTTP/1.1 (or 1.0 if you’re brave) to load even the most basic websites and no, writing the requests by hand doesn’t count.
I’m convinced that any “new” internet protocol will eventually fall victim to capitalistic human greed in the exact same way. Human greed is what causes the world to be what it is now and that greed still exists in a strong percentage of people today
It wouldn’t fall to greed, bit to laziness and convince. Why would anyone use a protocoll that limits the user instead of the one that let’s you talk with anyone you want.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Make your own website! You can even host it on neocities for free.
HidingCat@kbin.social 1 year ago
Thing is deciding on what to post and making the time to do so. xD