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I am reminded of the old Ricochet network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)
by EvanAnderson 6y ago
I am reminded of the old Ricochet network:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)
http://daedalus.cs.berkeley.edu/talks/retreat.6.96/Metricom.pdf http://daedalus.cs.berkeley.edu/talks/retreat.6.96/Metricom....
It was an idea ahead of its time.
- myself248 6y agoTruly. I used to run Ricochet.wikispaces.com and am sitting on a mountain of docs and stuff. Can't believe they managed to market it into the dirt and burn through five billion bucks.
- EvanAnderson 6y agoI still have a couple of the old modems lying around somewhere. There wasn't ever service where I live, but I played around w/ direct modem-to-modem communication. It was fun.
- jonah-archive 6y ago!! do you have the PDFs/etc that the Wayback didn't capture? If so, perhaps I can host them on the Internet Archive? Particularly interested in the Garage Gateway -- I've never seen the code and I have an otherwise working Ethernet Radio & pair of poletops I'd love to get properly running. E-mail's in my profile -