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Imagine this + some sort of p2p network where all our local archive becomes available to each other.

Yeah I love that idea. Plus search. Imagine building your own Google, based on a specialist expert archive of the stuff you're really good at and sharing that out to whoever wants it...and federating it into a giant search engine.

Like Yahoo

Good addition, in this way, we all would be a gigantic crawler.

I think the trade-off here is the latency and data-loss? Or data-loss could be resolved by introducing some sort of redudancy. Like how seeding works in torrents.

You should check out https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.

Cool find, this seems to be a good option.

SearX also came to my mind but isn't exactly p2p.

YaCy discussed almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309

Congratulations, you have re-discovered DC++

Get a client: https://sourceforge.net/projects/eiskaltdcpp/

And get started with a public hub: https://vacuum.name/en/dc/hubs

I wanted to mention Beaker Browser, but sadly, it's been archived: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...

Sounds like a perfect use case for NNCP. It works over any transport, from normal networks to radio links to sneakernet.

NNCP

What's NNCP?

You can't mention that on HN! You'll get aggro from all the 'anti-crypto' people!

Clearly, this is an awful idea. Because something something web3 might be related, and something something 'crypto'! No clear analysis is needed, because I used the bad word. Everyone must now stop looking into this immediately.

On a more positive note, I totally agree and there are many options to get it to work. One possible (and probably awful in many ways) start on the idea would be an automatic IPFS backed directory from the single-file extension. Would be nice just for a friend's and family type of project anyway.

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