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I used to host 3,000 active daily users from a 33mhz 486 with a 56k modem.

Thousands and thousands of lines of quality conversation, interaction, humanity.

To be honest, I kind of miss those days.

I love to think that the web of the future is just going to be everyones' mac Mini or whatever.

Big Data™ has always irked me, frankly.

Everyone moved too fast into the future, and this is perhaps not that good. The whole ASCII and 90s/cyberpunk nostalgia is being a major cue.

We need something that’s small, cheap, plugs into a power outlet (or a PoE port), and lets anyone serve their personal little node of their distributed social network.

I started thinking about that around an implementation that could run under Google’s App Engine free tier, but never completed it.

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