Lately I have been spending a lot of time exploring old software and technologies on my Linux netbook. Working on SkyLordsLab BBS made me realize how many interesting things from the early internet have been forgotten.
We have modern applications for almost everything now. But I wonder how many old ideas were actually good and simply got left behind.
So here is my question.
What is one forgotten internet technology or old piece of software that you think deserves a second chance?
It could be an old protocol. A forgotten application. A strange communication system. Or something most people have never even heard of.
I am looking for something unusual to explore. Maybe I will even try bringing one of those ideas back to life on my old antiX netbook
i thot the standard 3.5" floppy disks were the shit! like a physical folder for data and the matter on which data is inscribed is still visible; now, visualizing data storage & processing is too abstract for most people; uhm... some tiny blade inscribes magic runes on stone by shooting a laser beam?!
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emule and its kad network. ages ago I used emule all the time, and looking back it was one of the first real p2p systems i ever touched. no central server, just nodes finding each other through a kademlia p2p network.
you hashed a keyword, asked the closest nodes, and somehow files showed up from strangers all over the world. crazy stuff. it also helped me understanding bitcoin later on.