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 # Internet
 
-Internet (sometimes just the *net*, also *serious business*) is the grand, [decentralized](decentralization.md) global network of interconnected [computer](computer.md) [networks](network.md) that allows advanced, cheap, practically instantaneous intercommunication of people and computers and sharing of large amounts of [data](data.md) and [information](information.md). Over just a few decades since its birth in 1970s it changed the society tremendously, shifted it to the information age and stands as possibly the greatest technological invention of our society. It is a platform for many services and applications such as the [web](www.md), [e-mail](email.md), [internet of things](iot.md), [torrents](torrent.md), phone calls, video streaming, multiplayer [games](game.md) etc. Of course, once Internet became accessible to normal people and became the largest public forum on the planet, it has also become the biggest dump of retards in history and, as always, [capitalism](capitalism.md) turned the dream of Internet into a nightmare.
+Internet (sometimes just the *net*, also *serious business*) is the grand, [decentralized](decentralization.md) global network of interconnected [computer](computer.md) [networks](network.md) that allows advanced, cheap, practically instantaneous intercommunication of people and computers and sharing of large amounts of [data](data.md) and [information](information.md). Over just a few decades since its inception in 1970s it grew over biblical proportions, changed the society tremendously, shifted it to the information age and thereafter stands as possibly the greatest technological invention of our society. It is a platform for many services and applications such as the [web](www.md), [e-mail](email.md), [internet of stinks](iot.md), [torrents](torrent.md), phone calls, video streaming, multiplayer [games](game.md) etc. Of course, once Internet became accessible to [the common folk](npc.md) and turned to largest public forum on [the planet](earth.md), it has also become the largest dump of retards in [history](history.md) and, as always, [capitalism](capitalism.md) turned the dream of Internet into a nightmare.
 
 Before continuing it's important to make a clear **distinction between the Internet as such and the Internet Revolution**. The Internet in itself is a marvel of ingenuity and a good tool with great potential to help all the people, but the so called "Internet Revolution" was a **disaster** due to having a very bad, [capitalist](capitalism.md) society in place, just like the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions presented a disaster for the people despite farming, engineering, mass production and automation being potentially good concepts in themselves. A knife is a tool, it can be used for good, but it's a bad tool in hands of a psychopath, and the same goes about any technology. Therefore we have to distinguish between the Internet alone (good) and the effects that Internet created in our dystopian society (bad).
 
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 - **leaving signs ([rocks](rock.md), sticks, leaves, messages in sand, bulletin boards, ...)**: Some forest people communicate by leaving signs for others e.g. by leaving tears on leaves or making shapes from sticks or rocks -- these can carry messages like "beware, dangerous animal around", "today I hunted down a monkey here" or "I have extra food, come take some". When improved, we could communicate whole text messages, numbers and any binary data this way -- imagine e.g. a small ["bulletin board"](bbs.md) on some frequently visited crossroads between villages where people leave latest news, offers, demands, requests for information from others, silly jokes etc. In some cities there exist book exchange booths (often made from old phone booths) where people just leave their old books for others to take -- this could be further improved by adding some sort of message board for communication. Similarly networks such as *BookCrossing* work by people marking books with a tag and leaving them for others to find in some public place -- the books are traced on the Internet by their tags and may travel around the world.
 - **[intranet](intranet.md), [LAN](lan.md), [WAN](wan.md), ...**: Networks using basically the same technology as the Internet ([TCP](tcp.md)/[IP](ip.md), [ethernet](ethernet.md), [wifi](wifi.md), routers, ...), just on smaller scales -- the technology can actually be simpler: simpler routers can be used, no high performance backbone routers are needed, [Ronja](ronja.md) may be used instead of wifi, [DNS](dns.md) may be omitted and so on. There are many such networks, [military](military.md) has its own isolated networks, North Korea has its famous nation-wide isolated intranet ([Kwangmyong](kwangmyong.md)), Cuba has the famous [SNet](snet.md) -- "street net" that's used for pirating and games -- and so on. In Spain there is the famous [Guifi](guifi.md) network (with as of now nearly 40 thousand nodes) working in decentralized manner just on top of many interconnected wifi devices. The advantage is relative simplicity of implementation -- the technology is all there and quite cheap, you can set up your own network in the neighborhood and have complete control over it, government isn't gonna bully you for sharing movies, it won't spy on your communication (at least not so easily) etc.
 - **[radio](radio.md), [telegraph](telegraph.md)**: Plain FM/AM radio communication is a serious competition to Internet in terms of delay, bandwidth and distance of reach, while being very simple in comparison -- a skilled individual can construct or repair a radio with just some basic electronic components, which can't be said about digital computer networks that require extremely complex computer chips. Radio can relatively easily transfer analog information such as voice, but it can also send digital information. With [Morse code](morse_code.md) even the most primitive radio communication system can turn into something extremely powerful.
-- **[broadcast](broadcast.md) and alternative network topologies** (see also [world broadcast](world_broadcast.md)): broadcasts (one way communication towards many) can be implemented in many ways: with radio, audio, optically and so on. Broadcast only networks, such as [teletext](teletext.md), [TV](tv.md) or radio station broadcast, can be much simpler than a two way communication -- there don't have to be such complex protocols, there are no handshakes, devices can work on low power (as they're only receivers) and the broadcaster can't be overloaded by client requests. These can cover a great range of services such as news, weather forecast, time synchronization, geolocalization, work organization ("now we need you to produce this and this"), some forms of entertainment or providing generally useful data such as maps and books. If we do go for two way communication anyway, we should at least consider simpler network topologies -- with Internet we tend to think in mesh networks, i.e. "everyone connected to everyone", but that may be too complex to implement with other kinds of networks, it may be better to consider something like a ring network.
+- **[broadcast](broadcast.md) and alternative network topologies** (see also [world broadcast](world_broadcast.md)): broadcasts (one way communication towards many) can be implemented in many ways: with radio, audio, optically and so on. Broadcast only networks, such as [teletext](teletext.md), [TV](tv.md) or radio station broadcast, can be much simpler than a two way communication -- there don't have to be such complex protocols, there are no handshakes, devices can work on low power (as they're only receivers) and the broadcaster can't be overloaded by client requests. These can cover a great range of services such as news, weather forecast, time synchronization, geolocalization, work organization ("now we need you to produce this and this"), some forms of entertainment or providing generally useful data such as maps and [books](books.md). If we do go for two way communication anyway, we should at least consider simpler network topologies -- with Internet we tend to think in mesh networks, i.e. "everyone connected to everyone", but that may be too complex to implement with other kinds of networks, it may be better to consider something like a ring network.
 - **optical telegraph, smoke signals, lanterns, flag semaphores, kites, flares, mirrors and other optical communication**: Optical communication is another technique widely used throughout history -- the advantage here is speed as obviously [light](light.md) is the fastest medium you can ever use. Lighting bonfires on hill tops could send a message about incoming enemy at great distances, ancient Greeks could even send more complex messages this way (see Phryctoria), later on even a more complex information could be sent using optical telegraph -- a chain of towers that forwarded symbols one to another by positioning big arms on their rooftops to form some specific shape, with the next tower copying the symbol and so on. You can leave big symbols in your window to send a few bytes to anyone with a telescope in the line of sight of your house. Basically if you can make someone see something, you can send a message; you can increase the amount of data by utilizing [color](color.md), movement, blinking and so on. Also remember that [optical fiber](optical_fiber.md) doesn't need a computer to work, it could probably be operated even manually provided we have some kind of [laser](laser.md).
 - **[audio](audio.md) signals (bells, canon shots, drums, horns, megaphones, ...)**: Audio signal were again used a lot in history, a church bell could tell people many different things by how it was rang, canon shots could warn of incoming enemies and so on, voice can be used too. Drums are still widely used this way in Africa. The principle of string telephone can be considered to make some audio based networks.
 - **[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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 Would the Internet exist in [less retarded society](less_retarded_society.md)? Is it compatible with it? And if so, how different would it be?
 
-It's very clear the Internet as seen today was shaped by [capitalism](capitalism.md) and thus reflects its values such as [consumerism](consumerism.md), [censorship](censorship.md) ("[privacy](privacy.md)", "[security](security.md)"), wasteful [maximalism](bloat.md) (maximum bandwidth, maximum speed, ...), centralized control ([DNS](dns.md), content delivery networks, ...) etc. This is what would have to change in less retarded society whose values are mostly opposite: [minimalism](minimalism.md), [simplicity](kiss.md), non-commerce, absolute openness, slow life etc. In a better form the Internet is indeed completely compatible with ideal society, it is a tool that can be used for the good. Many of the above mentioned alternative and non-traditional ways of data exchange could be used to make Internet "less retarded".
+It's very clear the Internet as seen today was shaped by [capitalism](capitalism.md) and thus reflects its (anti)values such as [consumerism](consumerism.md), [censorship](censorship.md) ("[privacy](privacy.md)", "[security](security.md)"), wasteful [maximalism](bloat.md) (maximum bandwidth, maximum speed, ...), centralized control ([DNS](dns.md), content delivery networks, ...) etc. This is what would have to change in less retarded society whose values are mostly opposite: [minimalism](minimalism.md), [simplicity](kiss.md), [selflessness](selflessness.md), non-commerce, absolute openness, slow life etc. In a better form the Internet is indeed completely compatible with ideal society, it is a tool that can be used for the good. Many of the above mentioned alternative and non-traditional ways of data exchange could be used to make Internet "less retarded".
 
-As always nothing can be predicted with certainty, but our Internet would likely be more diverse e.g. in protocols and media used for connecting computers which would depend on location: in some places radio and cables could be used, in other places data mules, light or sound could do better, and highly expensive and complicated methods like satellites would be reduced or eliminated. Computer wouldn't be *always online* like today, personal computers mostly wouldn't use wifis (though they could easily receive [radio broadcasts](world_broadcast.md)) -- common people would carry their personal computers along with the data they need, and would only connect to local Internet hubs if they need to send an email or download some additional data. Two way radio communication would potentially only be used to connect far away hubs if cables would be too expensive, and even so the transmission wouldn't likely be sustained 24/7, it could only happen for example once a day. As a result Internet would be slower, data from far away would be [cached](cache.md) in local hubs and Internet communities would be more local (in the spirit of [BBS](bbs.md) networks in the 80s and 90s), more self sufficient and more independent. Internet would blend together with all other networks and so for example [radio broadcasts](world_broadcast.md) would become part of it, enabling easier, further reaching and more efficient one way transmission of data about weather, news and so on. Instantaneous high-bandwidth communication, such as video calls, would be possible on shorter distances but challenging and sometimes impossible over large distances, but society wouldn't depend on them like it does today.
+As always nothing can be predicted with certainty, but our Internet would likely be more diverse e.g. in protocols and media used for connecting computers which would depend on location: in some places radio and cables could be used, in other places data mules, light or sound could do better, and highly expensive and complicated methods like satellites would be reduced or eliminated. Computers wouldn't sport the *always online* paradigm like they do today, personal ones mostly wouldn't even use wifis (though they could easily receive [radio broadcasts](world_broadcast.md)) -- common people would carry their personal computers along with the data they need, and would only connect to local Internet hubs if they need to send an email or download some additional data. Two way radio communication would potentially only be used to connect far away hubs if cables would be too expensive, and even so the transmission wouldn't likely be sustained 24/7, it could only happen for example once a day. As a result Internet would be slower, data from far away would be [cached](cache.md) in local hubs and Internet communities would be more local (in the spirit of [BBS](bbs.md) networks in the 80s and 90s), more self sufficient and more independent. Internet would blend together with all other networks and so for example [radio broadcasts](world_broadcast.md) would become part of it, enabling easier, further reaching and more efficient one way transmission of data about weather, news and so on. Instantaneous high-bandwidth communication, such as video calls, would be possible on shorter distances but challenging and sometimes impossible over large distances, but society wouldn't depend on them like it does today.
 
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