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In 1990 ARPANET project was officially ended to let the network, now mostly known as the Internet, live and be developed further mostly by the private sector. In this year [EFF](eff.md) (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a major international non-profit that would help overlooking the Internet, was also founded. Due to the exploding popularity the Internet started to run out of IP addresses in early 1990s which was temporarily fixed by so called [CIDR](cidr.md) with long term plans to transition to bigger [IPv6](ipv6.md) addresses.
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Probably the biggest milestone in Internet history was the emergence of the **[World Wide Web](www.md)** -- also www or just "the web" -- in 1989 by [Tim Berners-Lee](berners_lee.md) who was at the time working at [CERN](cern.md) in [Europe](europe.md) (i.e. if we see the [US](usa.md) as the inventor of the Internet, the Europe is who made it widespread and famous). The Web was based on the idea of documents (webpages) written in a special language ([HTML](html.md)), all interconnected via clickable links (so called [hypertext](hypertext.md)) viewed with a program called [web browser](web_browser.md). Web's popularity was also helped by the fact that the programs made by Berners-Lee were released to the [public domain](public_domain.md) so that anyone could jump on the web for free, even use it commercially without any fees and so on. And of course, a prerequisite for wide popularity was the presence of the cheap [personal computer](pc.md). Shortly after its invention web competed with other similar services based on similar ideas, most notably [gopher](gopher.md), however some time in the mid 1990s the web took over and would quickly became by far the most prominent Internet service which would go on to make the Internet mainstream. In 1994 [w3c](w3c.md) (World Wide Web Consortium) was established to be the main organization standardizing the web. The web would gradually push all other networks and competing service -- such as [BBS](bbs.md)es, [Usenet](usenet.md) and [gopher](gopher.md) -- to the deepest underground. Of course, having become the [Earth](earth.md)'s largest public forum, the web would also ultimately become what would kill the Internet because all the major powers (read [corporations](corporation.md) and [states](state.md)) would quickly jump in to abuse it for their own propaganda, [marketing](marketing.md), spying, manipulation, crowd control, cyberattacks and so on. This would still take some time, until around 2005 the web was great, very decentralized with plethora of useful personal web pages, however after this -- with the onset of so called web 2.0 (more [bloated](blot.md) web) and so called [social networks](social_network.md) -- the downhill ride would start. It would still take around anther decade for the web to die completely, until 2010 the web still kept part of its original glory, but after 2015 it all shattered. After 2020 the web is but a corpse inhabited by grandma's playing games on facebook while being bombarded by ads and the corpse of what used to be the web is just being kicked further to the ground by new capitalist cyberweapons such as the "[AI](ai.md)".
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Probably the biggest milestone in Internet history was the emergence of the **[World Wide Web](www.md)** -- also www or just "the web" -- in 1989 by [Tim Berners-Lee](berners_lee.md) who was at the time working at [CERN](cern.md) in [Europe](europe.md) (i.e. if we see the [US](usa.md) as the inventor of the Internet, the Europe is who made it widespread and famous). The Web was based on the idea of documents (webpages) written in a special language ([HTML](html.md)), all interconnected via clickable links (so called [hypertext](hypertext.md)) viewed with a program called [web browser](web_browser.md). Web's popularity was also helped by the fact that the programs made by Berners-Lee were released to the [public domain](public_domain.md) so that anyone could jump on the web for free, even use it commercially without any fees and so on. And of course, a prerequisite for wide popularity was the presence of the cheap [personal computer](pc.md). Shortly after its invention web competed with other similar services based on similar ideas, most notably [gopher](gopher.md), however some time in the mid 1990s the web took over and would quickly became by far the most prominent Internet service which would go on to make the Internet mainstream. In 1994 [w3c](w3c.md) (World Wide Web Consortium) was established to be the main organization standardizing the web. The web would gradually push all other networks and competing service -- such as [BBS](bbs.md)es, [Usenet](usenet.md) and [gopher](gopher.md) -- to the deepest underground. Of course, having become the [Earth](earth.md)'s largest public forum, the web would also ultimately become what would kill the Internet because all the major powers (read [corporations](corporation.md) and [states](state.md)) would quickly jump in to abuse it for their own propaganda, [marketing](marketing.md), spying, manipulation, crowd control, cyberattacks and so on. This would still take some time, until around 2005 the web was great, very decentralized with plethora of useful personal web pages. People also weren't shitscared by [security](security.md) hysteria yet, [https](https.md) still wasn't the default, everyone would put his photos online along with his name, address and phone number, you could literally visit elementary school websites and find which children went to which class and so on -- no, nothing bad happened, it was all fine. However after this -- with the onset of so called web 2.0 (more [bloated](blot.md) web) and so called [social networks](social_network.md) -- the downhill ride would start. It would still take around anther decade for the web to die completely, until 2010 the web still kept part of its original glory, but after 2015 it all shattered. After 2020 the web is but a corpse inhabited by grandma's playing games on facebook while being bombarded by ads and the corpse of what used to be the web is just being kicked further to the ground by new capitalist cyberweapons such as the "[AI](ai.md)".
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Nowadays not only the web but the Internet as a whole is dying by hardcore [capitalism](capitalism.md), becoming greatly [censored](censorship.md), regulated, split (so called [splinternet](splinternet.md)) and controlled by [corporations](corporation.md) who are absolutely killing the old decentralized, [free as in freedom](free_software.md) Internet that was developed by [free software](free_software.md) enthusiasts, nerds, oldschool [hackers](hacking.md), [free speech](free_speech.md) promoters, by universities, scientists and researches in transparent ways, through the RFCs. It is important to remember what it once used to be so that perhaps one day we can see the true Internet return.
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- **[pneumatic tube](pneumatic_tube.md)** and similar non-electric networks: A network of tubes using pressured air to transform small capsule containers from one place to another pretty fast, often used in factories -- this can carry written messages but also, unlike the Internet, physical objects! Other mechanism could be explored to construct similar networks, e.g. something based on hydraulics, string pulling, steam engines, gears, simple gravity (sending a marble down some tunnel could be a quite fast message) and so on.
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- **phone networks, [phreaking](phreaking.md), power line communication etc.**: phone networks (and possibly other networks like the electric network, TV network etc.) can be used for all kinds of communication, with [modems](modem.md) they can interconnect digital computers (which was widely used before Internet became widespread, see e.g. [BBS](bbs.md) networks); these networks can also be [hacked](hacking.md) to be used for free or cheap communication -- old time hackers knew how to rape phone boots to let them make free calls (see [phreaking](phreaking.md)). Networks primarily used for carrying power can also carry information alongside power (see [power line communication](plc.md)). Nowadays more anti hacking measures are in place but you may still e.g. exploit the fact that merely ringing someone's phone is completely free, which can be used to send a few [bits](bit.md) of information. WARNING: It's generally illegal to mess with these networks in unintended ways, trying this shit's always on you :-) Also touching random electric cables can kill you. If you by accident take down some optical cable or something, you'll be fined to death.
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- **normal voice communication**: As stupid as it sounds, we can sometimes just talk to other people, even if they live in another village, simply by going there and talking to them. You can use shouting to reach even people who are far away instantly -- some communities even invented things like [whistling languages](whistling_language.md) to communicate simple messages on extreme distances, this was used by hunters in forests etc. We got too much used to using cell phones to communicate with someone who just happens to be in another room, but this is just stupid, this can be just discarded as human degeneracy.
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- **petroglyphs ([rock](rock.md) carving), wood carving, glass painting, knot tying, metal tables etc.**: Data can be recorded manually in many materials, e.g. Incas used Quipu, a special knot tying language. Carving to stone is hard but will last for a long time, it is ideal for preserving small amounts of important information for a long time. See also [rok carved binary data](rcbd.md).
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- **petroglyphs ([rock](rock.md) carving), wood carving, glass painting, knot tying, metal tables etc.**: Data can be recorded manually in many materials, e.g. Incas used Quipu, a special knot tying language. Carving to stone is hard but will last for a long time, it is ideal for preserving small amounts of important information for a long time. See also [rock carved binary data](rcbd.md).
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- **human memory**: Human memory can be used instead of computer memory, though we have to bear in mind its limitations. In very old times, before books became common and cheap, there existed people who made living by memorizing history in forms of long poems and recited them in public (this is how e.g. Iliad and Odyssey survived until they were actually recorded).
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- **public fora**: Instead of an Internet discussion forum or chat it's possible to just allocate some public space for people to simply talk. Instead of [YouTube](youtube.md) videos people can go see someone's lecture, with the advantage of being able to actually talk to the guy and ask questions -- again, pretty obvious but the new generation may already be forgetting things can be [done simply](kiss.md).
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- **local storage/paper and offline programs instead of [cloud](cloud.md)**: This is again more of a note for the newer generation that's used to storing everything in the cloud and also using "cloud apps" -- you can (and SHOULD) store things locally of course, you can use offline programs and eve boomer solutions like a literal paper notebook for taking notes instead of using some online note taking "app". Similarly you can store your cash [money](money.md) and private photos in a physical safe instead of relying on Internet banking or password protected clouds and voila, suddenly you free of yet another bullshit.
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