Re: Why Nostr
Thank you for sharing this.
I suppose that we should do better this time because we have the advantage of hindsight (history). We should know what worked well and what not in those network apps (UUNet, USEnet, NetNews). I've heard about those, I even have readed some important Computing Science articles thanks to a backup google groups made once, but I've necer experienced it be myself.
The first fear that comes to my mind is that nobody has an "obligation" to keep the records. I suppose it is mitigated by the eventual prolideration of relays. Maybe a similar to the "google group backup of Usenet" could be planned ahead this time.
>From: unclebobmartin at 07/30/22 20:20:10 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
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>My first experience with the internet was in the late 1980s. At the time I was using Sun sparcstations at work and working in C/C++. Our company was a little startup with half a dozen programmers and an equal number of machines. We had an ethernet in the office that we could use to ship files back and forth; and we kept our master files on one particular machine.
>
>We knew someone who worked at a different company that had a connection to the actual internet. Their connection was 19.2K bits per second, which was pretty fast in those days. So we asked if we could dial into his machine once or twice per day to ship email and other network packets. He agreed.
>
>This put us "on the internet" -- so to speak. The connection was intermittent and slow, our dial up link was only 1200 bits per second, but that was enough.
>
>One of the network apps was UUNet, or USEnet, or NetNews. It went by many different names. Using this application anyone could write an article on any topic. That article would be shipped around the internet to all other UseNet users. You could also subscribe to topics, read what others had written, and publicly reply. It was a social network.
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>The exchange of articles was slow compared to today, but we could send articles and get replies in one day. And so we did. Lots and lots of articles. Tons of furious debates. It was an extraordinarily active echange of information. It was valuable as hell.
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>And...it was uncensorable. It was entirely peer-peer. There were no central servers, no choke points, and no places where governments or companies could reach in and block "disinformation". It was great.
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>Notr is the rebirth of that kind of free network. Nobody runs it. Nobody has choke points on it. There are no central servers. And with the Schnorr signatures, you can be sure you know who you are talking to.
>
>That's why notsr -- at least for me. I'm sick of the big tech BS and their petty little power games. I want a free network where I can discuss anything I like, get into furious debates, learn like crazy, and not have to worry about some asshole bureaucrat deciding that nobody should ever hear from me again.
>
>>From: jgomo3 at 07/30/22 15:36:35 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
>>Why nostr?
I suppose that we should do better this time because we have the advantage of hindsight (history). We should know what worked well and what not in those network apps (UUNet, USEnet, NetNews). I've heard about those, I even have readed some important Computing Science articles thanks to a backup google groups made once, but I've necer experienced it be myself.
The first fear that comes to my mind is that nobody has an "obligation" to keep the records. I suppose it is mitigated by the eventual prolideration of relays. Maybe a similar to the "google group backup of Usenet" could be planned ahead this time.
>From: unclebobmartin at 07/30/22 20:20:10 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
>---------------
>My first experience with the internet was in the late 1980s. At the time I was using Sun sparcstations at work and working in C/C++. Our company was a little startup with half a dozen programmers and an equal number of machines. We had an ethernet in the office that we could use to ship files back and forth; and we kept our master files on one particular machine.
>
>We knew someone who worked at a different company that had a connection to the actual internet. Their connection was 19.2K bits per second, which was pretty fast in those days. So we asked if we could dial into his machine once or twice per day to ship email and other network packets. He agreed.
>
>This put us "on the internet" -- so to speak. The connection was intermittent and slow, our dial up link was only 1200 bits per second, but that was enough.
>
>One of the network apps was UUNet, or USEnet, or NetNews. It went by many different names. Using this application anyone could write an article on any topic. That article would be shipped around the internet to all other UseNet users. You could also subscribe to topics, read what others had written, and publicly reply. It was a social network.
>
>The exchange of articles was slow compared to today, but we could send articles and get replies in one day. And so we did. Lots and lots of articles. Tons of furious debates. It was an extraordinarily active echange of information. It was valuable as hell.
>
>And...it was uncensorable. It was entirely peer-peer. There were no central servers, no choke points, and no places where governments or companies could reach in and block "disinformation". It was great.
>
>Notr is the rebirth of that kind of free network. Nobody runs it. Nobody has choke points on it. There are no central servers. And with the Schnorr signatures, you can be sure you know who you are talking to.
>
>That's why notsr -- at least for me. I'm sick of the big tech BS and their petty little power games. I want a free network where I can discuss anything I like, get into furious debates, learn like crazy, and not have to worry about some asshole bureaucrat deciding that nobody should ever hear from me again.
>
>>From: jgomo3 at 07/30/22 15:36:35 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
>>Why nostr?