Subj : Re: Notice that...
To   : Arelor
From : tenser
Date : Thu Feb 17 2022 11:38:02

On 15 Feb 2022 at 06:34p, Arelor pondered and said...
 
 Ar>  > You're describing applications of the Internet, not the Internet
 Ar>  > itself.  At this point, for all intents and purposes, BBSes and
 Ar>  > their networks are also applications of the Internet.  Indeed,
 Ar>  > Fidonet has relied on the Internet for international distribution
 Ar>  > for 30 years.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Give it a couple of years and the Internet will suck too.

The Internet is 50 years old and is ubiquitous.

 Ar> Search engines are already gating what we get to see online. There is
 Ar> some material
 Ar> which is hard to find only because search engines will filter it.

You seem to be describing the world wide web, which is an
application of the Internet, but not the only one.

 Ar> Ipv6 is a poor substitute for ipv4,

Why do you say that?

 Ar> You put a hobby server online and russian bots start raping it, with the
 Ar> passion of a
 Ar> gang of orcs who finds a Nymph tied to a tree in the forest. Place a
 Ar> captcha in front
 Ar> of your site and they will hire a legion of 3rd worlders to break past
 Ar> it and flood
 Ar> you anyway. Then you place your site behind a content distribution
 Ar> network in order to
 Ar> be protected, and become a slave to them (and drag your users with you
 Ar> at the same
 Ar> time).

Hmm. I have several machines on the Internet and don't seem
to suffer from these problems, colorful as the descriptions
are.

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