I was thinking the other day that I liked the web better when it was just people who were passionate or nerdy running a website. It wasn’t about ad revenue.
Maybe it’ll be better this way.
Maybe it’ll be better this way.
I'm hoping that good webrings can hold the integrity of human networks on the web.
https://172.93.49.252/settings
This website has some forgotten www features that are becoming rare thanks to Big Tech, Big CDNs, and their followers:
1. It does not require SNI (SNI was added to TLS in 2003)
2. It publishes a stable IP address. See https://172.93.49.252/submit/
One can use an IP address _or_ a domain name (any domain name will work) to reach it
3. It is available via HTTP as well as HTTPS
For old time's sake, try requesting via HTTPS and then HTTP and see if you notice a speed difference
To get a starting list of potential web sites, freely available DNS zone files (public information) remain available
Every major www search engine has used these files at some point
People often refer to DNS as the internet's "phone book"
If that is true, then DNS queries are "directory assistance"
The actual phone book is the zone files
Perhaps we need a wiby.me for DNS to select from all those NS and A records that go undiscovered
djbdns has a program called "random-ip"
random-ip|sed 1q
This can often lead to a discovering random website
The type of website that is worthless to so-called "tech" companies and their online surveillance advertising "business model"
Today? Run just a plain Apache without a domain name, just a plain old IPv4 and listen on ports 80/443. In seconds you'll get hit by a barrage of exploit attempts, scanners, god knows what. And manage to get something successful, you'll get a few emails that say "pay us X dollars in BTC and we'll leave you alone", and if not you'll get booted off the net if you don't hide behind Cloudflare.
Discovery is also not a thing any more. The old "rings" have long since passed, RSS feeds went down the drain with Google Reader (IMHO, that decision effectively killed off the blogosphere), and Google Search got completely poisoned with SEO.
The Internet has become the Wild West. Law makers have begun to notice but unfortunately they're so utterly braindead that fierce opposition to their regulation attempts is the only choice possible, so nothing happens. Rinse and repeat.
I might be naive about getting hacked, but it's been up for 5 or 6 years now and nothing bad has happened.
Edit: actually closer to 12 years total now, wtf I'm aging?
Generally there has to be an ROI for someone to really want to go after you.
If you think you can hack this server, you probably can! Please don't. I've invited you into my home for tea; please don't break my dishes to show me why I should've kept them in a safe.
You're lucky it's that and not CSAM, a friend of mine had that happen and that took a lot of resources to properly clean up without him getting v& in the process.
That phrase struck me as odd. I had to reread the comment. I already associated the metaphor with the 1990s web others are lamenting as gone. They refer to the WW of content; “wild” referring to sparsely populated lands. Your WW is “wild” or diverse lawlessness, vandalism and unruly (human) behavior. I suppose both are true—were true.