<![CDATA[“The internet you grew up on isn't dying]]>“The internet you grew up on isn't dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.”

And it’s not a bad thing.

EDIT: mad props to @tg for writing one of the best things I’ve read in ages. We remember the old ways!

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The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about the protocols, federations, and quiet machinery underneath everything you actually use.

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Terry Godier (terrygodier.com)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/b44b662a-a11a-4fdd-9f06-e2cd0d0369f0/the-internet-you-grew-up-on-isn-t-dyingRSS for NodeTue, 26 May 2026 02:13:13 GMTWed, 06 May 2026 23:28:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:27:37 GMT]]>@darkuncle the problem has never been that it can't be built; it's that it would never be seen, and never be heard.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weird.autos/users/rootwyrm/statuses/116530928512323532https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weird.autos/users/rootwyrm/statuses/116530928512323532Thu, 07 May 2026 02:27:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:10:50 GMT]]>@mayintoronto @stairjoke @tg you would need to be running some kind of a UNIX variant (a BSD or Linux, but I’d recommend OpenBSD for safety) and then you just turn it on! (And DNS, and a local user account, and port forwarding on your router … maybe I should just do a little write up on how to build it from scratch for people who haven’t done it before?)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530862492766050https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530862492766050Thu, 07 May 2026 02:10:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:08:18 GMT]]>@darkuncle @stairjoke @tg I'm tempted to put nothing but the finger thing on my website, and I have no idea how you'd do that at all.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mayintoronto/statuses/116530852570321419https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mayintoronto/statuses/116530852570321419Thu, 07 May 2026 02:08:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:06:25 GMT]]>@rl_dane @ireneista @tg not on OpenBSD it doesn’t 😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530845132098940https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530845132098940Thu, 07 May 2026 02:06:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:05:36 GMT]]>@paul_ipv6 many-to-many not many-to-one

We really lost sight of the fundamental principle of the Internet over the last 20 years: decentralization

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530841923301058https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530841923301058Thu, 07 May 2026 02:05:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:04:09 GMT]]>@darkuncle

the trend that everything has to scale to insane degree and that you can't just build a tool you need has not been to our benefit, nor to the benefit of the internet.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paul_ipv6/statuses/116530836262703660https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paul_ipv6/statuses/116530836262703660Thu, 07 May 2026 02:04:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:02:49 GMT]]>@mayintoronto @stairjoke I am inspired to go run some stuff out of my house again. Thanks @tg

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530830998869293https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530830998869293Thu, 07 May 2026 02:02:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:01:03 GMT]]>@darkuncle @stairjoke such a great piece of writing!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mayintoronto/statuses/116530824047665590https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mayintoronto/statuses/116530824047665590Thu, 07 May 2026 02:01:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 02:01:00 GMT]]>@darkuncle @tg yes. we remember checking John Carmack's planfile as kids, because we had questionable taste in role models, and also using it amongst our classmates, but we haven't done anything with it since then.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KR02NEE42Z3Y929DKSRGJW0Mhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KR02NEE42Z3Y929DKSRGJW0MThu, 07 May 2026 02:01:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 01:58:01 GMT]]>The idea that I could just go and build stuff like it’s 1999 again and I am in my early Unix admin days again kind of blows my mind a little bit but also seems completely obvious — like, of course you can go build it like you always did; when did that ever stop being possible?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530812137326066https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530812137326066Thu, 07 May 2026 01:58:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 01:56:04 GMT]]>@ireneista @tg I used to run one on my OpenBSD servers, but then I quit using it and so did everybody else except for the people that had local accounts

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530804484845195https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530804484845195Thu, 07 May 2026 01:56:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 01:53:44 GMT]]>@tg maybe we need a new way to envision how we interact with our phones and what we use them for. I remember 20+ years ago having a Treo 650 with an SSH client on it and I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Blink for iOS today gives me those kinds of vibes.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530795310325791https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530795310325791Thu, 07 May 2026 01:53:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 01:10:51 GMT]]>@darkuncle @tg we should set up a Finger server on our domain

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KQZZSK0DPEH59PKD7J7HA49Thttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KQZZSK0DPEH59PKD7J7HA49TThu, 07 May 2026 01:10:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 00:19:13 GMT]]>@darkuncle it’s happening all around us. I think phones when viewed as a personal pocket computer makes this feel very possible

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/ap/users/115948090307838315/statuses/116530423607389084https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/ap/users/115948090307838315/statuses/116530423607389084Thu, 07 May 2026 00:19:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Thu, 07 May 2026 00:03:34 GMT]]>@tg I wonder if we can get to a renaissance where we rediscover the boring Internet and also still interact with it through phones that are not a headache to operate. Are smartphones fundamentally incompatible with the Internet as we interacted with it in the 90s?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530362091235429https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530362091235429Thu, 07 May 2026 00:03:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Wed, 06 May 2026 23:49:30 GMT]]>@darkuncle absolutely! I still use Internet radio today

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/ap/users/115948090307838315/statuses/116530306765376936https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/ap/users/115948090307838315/statuses/116530306765376936Wed, 06 May 2026 23:49:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Wed, 06 May 2026 23:43:05 GMT]]>@tg the SomaFM reference reminds me of youarelistening.to/losangeles which I discovered shortly after SomaFM in the early 00s

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530281551186664https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530281551186664Wed, 06 May 2026 23:43:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Wed, 06 May 2026 23:40:06 GMT]]>And big thanks to @mayintoronto for boosting @stairjoke OP so I found this to begin with. Love me some fedi. ❤

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530269827869831https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530269827869831Wed, 06 May 2026 23:40:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Wed, 06 May 2026 23:38:27 GMT]]>“These aren't acts of nostalgia. I don't want to teleport to 1999 with a beige computer and pretend everything was better when getting online made a noise.”

I lol’d

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530263359232115https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530263359232115Wed, 06 May 2026 23:38:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “The internet you grew up on isn't dying on Wed, 06 May 2026 23:31:48 GMT]]>“Some things need to become enormous to survive. Other things survive because they never needed to become enormous.”

this is really a delightful essay; those of us who remember the 90s Internet will love it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530237189866305https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/darkuncle/statuses/116530237189866305Wed, 06 May 2026 23:31:48 GMT