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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
43067.7 In reply to 43067.6 
Yeah, I've just been pondering the absurdity of paying so much for essentially a fraction of a kilobyte.

And using complex bloated buggy JS interfaces for something that underneath is relatively simple.

An international non-profit that provided a lightweight flexible API would be great, although perhaps only a partial solution.

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
43067.8 In reply to 43067.7 
I've been thinking about just using an IP address. We barely ever type them in anyway.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
43067.9 In reply to 43067.8 
A month ago I had a half-formed response to that, and decided to let it to coagulate before responding.

Except it didn't.

My thoughts were in the region of...
* Kinda cool as a protest against DNS, so long as a provider can guarantee a static address.
* There's still enough offline/verbal interaction for it to be impractical for many.
* I might have had a third point, but if so I forgot it. :(

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
43067.10 In reply to 43067.9 
I've since had a "better" idea. We stop using DNS and, instead, just maintain a hosts file that we all share.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
43067.11 In reply to 43067.10 
I was thinking about when websites didn't need their own domains, and instead we joined neighbourhoods, and had curated directories which were more useful than searching.

Then I followed a rabbit hole and discovered NeoCities.

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
43067.12 In reply to 43067.11 
Aware of Neocities! A friend uses it for his website.

Also, what I suggested is pretty much how name resolution worked on the early internet. And this woman was responsible for maintaining the hosts file.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
43067.13 In reply to 43067.11 
Also there are still tilde servers. Where you get a home directory and can serve pages from ~/username/ like back in the olden days.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
43067.14 In reply to 43067.13 
There might be a bandwidth issue because everything is super lofi. Only use case I can come up with is under the radar stuff.

I'll allow it has a certain janky charm.
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