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JPG Internet

74 points by philipn 12y ago

kirillzubovsky 12y ago
An odd but very intriguing idea :)
2arrs2ells 12y ago
Clever hack! Reminiscent of RMS: "I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me" - https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
- pronoiac 12y ago
  Doing this means that you have your own Wayback Machine, just index your mail archive. :)
IdAgreeWithThat 12y ago
Looking at that page, I can't help but feel I'm being brainwashed into a cult or something.
- anigbrowl 12y ago
  I can see how you'd feel vulnerable to that.
schlarpc 12y ago
I wrote a VPN-over-Facebook tunnel a week or two ago with basically the same motivation. Stupid and slow as hell, but I still want to try it out with the $12 data plan sometime.
Elhana 12y ago
What happens if you post a link to some endless scrolling website?
- McGlockenshire 12y ago
  Blindly assuming that it operates using the simplest thing that could possibly work, it's just capturing the viewport a few seconds after the page is "done" rendering. It would likely only show whatever content is loaded without scrolling. I'm not about to go confirm this myself, as, well, Facebook.
Qualman 12y ago
It's a really clever idea, but something about "JPG Internet: Get your FREE JPG" made me think it was a joke at first.
techsupporter 12y ago
Damn, this reminds me of having to do FTP-via-email (or asking for FREQs on FidoNet) 20 years ago...
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aaronbrethorst 12y ago
I predict the Facebook page will get shut down for displaying porn in the next day or so. Neat idea, though.
luos 12y ago
I had almost the same idea. Here there is something called facebook zero which is available at 0.facebook.com, it's facebook without images but it is free for T-Mobile users. There would be a possibility to do some browsing if a user sends a query message to a page/other user-bot which then downloads the information and responds in a fb text message. Like that google sms feature. Fortunately I have internet on my phone so this is not really a need anymore :)
tempodox 12y ago
Indeed, if the Internet were a JPEG, we could just put it in our pocket and carry it around...
menelaus35 12y ago
just awesome! "maybe" helpful to some and at the same time it's satirical and funny. This just made my day :)
Artemis2 12y ago
Clever idea. The best would be making the same kind of bot for private messages, and open-source it so people can deploy their own "proxys" on Facebook.
guard-of-terra 12y ago
This reminds me of the oldschool days when you only had e-mail but no internet and you would talk to email bot requesting web pages which were sent to you via e-mail.

74 points by philipn 12y ago

An odd but very intriguing idea :)

Clever hack! Reminiscent of RMS: "I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me" - https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

pronoiac 12y ago
Doing this means that you have your own Wayback Machine, just index your mail archive. :)

IdAgreeWithThat 12y ago

Looking at that page, I can't help but feel I'm being brainwashed into a cult or something.

anigbrowl 12y ago
I can see how you'd feel vulnerable to that.

schlarpc 12y ago

I wrote a VPN-over-Facebook tunnel a week or two ago with basically the same motivation. Stupid and slow as hell, but I still want to try it out with the $12 data plan sometime.

Elhana 12y ago

What happens if you post a link to some endless scrolling website?

McGlockenshire 12y ago
Blindly assuming that it operates using the simplest thing that could possibly work, it's just capturing the viewport a few seconds after the page is "done" rendering. It would likely only show whatever content is loaded without scrolling. I'm not about to go confirm this myself, as, well, Facebook.

Qualman 12y ago

It's a really clever idea, but something about "JPG Internet: Get your FREE JPG" made me think it was a joke at first.

techsupporter 12y ago

Damn, this reminds me of having to do FTP-via-email (or asking for FREQs on FidoNet) 20 years ago...

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aaronbrethorst 12y ago

I predict the Facebook page will get shut down for displaying porn in the next day or so. Neat idea, though.

luos 12y ago

I had almost the same idea. Here there is something called facebook zero which is available at 0.facebook.com, it's facebook without images but it is free for T-Mobile users. There would be a possibility to do some browsing if a user sends a query message to a page/other user-bot which then downloads the information and responds in a fb text message. Like that google sms feature. Fortunately I have internet on my phone so this is not really a need anymore :)

tempodox 12y ago

Indeed, if the Internet were a JPEG, we could just put it in our pocket and carry it around...

menelaus35 12y ago

just awesome! "maybe" helpful to some and at the same time it's satirical and funny. This just made my day :)

Artemis2 12y ago

Clever idea. The best would be making the same kind of bot for private messages, and open-source it so people can deploy their own "proxys" on Facebook.

guard-of-terra 12y ago

This reminds me of the oldschool days when you only had e-mail but no internet and you would talk to email bot requesting web pages which were sent to you via e-mail.