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I'm not sure I fully understand -- what is the internet without the services that you use on it? If common sites like youtube and facebook aren't directly conn
by kgen 15y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand -- what is the internet without the services that you use on it? If common sites like youtube and facebook aren't directly connected to this network, will this work? And if not, then what makes this the internet and not just an adhoc mesh network?
- nextparadigms 15y agoObviously, this will take off only if there is a need for it, just like anything else. If Governments keep censoring more and more of the Internet, people will gradually move to this type of networks, and as scale is built, services will start appearing on them, too. What you're saying is also a typical "the incumbent's product has more features than the new disruptive product", but that usually doesn't stop disruptive products from taking off, because they fill a different need, and they're much better at certain things - in this case at ensuring you don't get censored, that your data is protected, and that you can be anonymous.
- kgen 15y agoBut due to the spatial nature of the mesh networks described, either the networks would require wifi to span cities and states or each cluster would need their own set of services? If that's the case, it's not really the internet as we know today?
- zokier 15y agoI'd imagine that clusters could be interconnected by fiber optics. That's the beautiful thing about current internet; it doesn't care about the underlying medium. Your packets may travel through a POTS network to satellites to fiber optics to ethernet to DSL until it reaches your computer, and it's all rather transparent.