I actually have fantasies about going back to the late 1800s and making a hyper-simple steampunk style internet with telegraph wires and whatnot. You'd have 'se

I actually have fantasies about going back to the late 1800s and making a hyper-simple steampunk style internet with telegraph wires and whatnot. You'd have 'servers' which set up static pages in some analog format (akin to moveable type) which could then be easily coded and decoded across the wire and printed onto a ticker of some sort. You could have a set of panels that flipped to one side of the other (black or white) to form a rudimentary display, maybe 256x128 or something.