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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I just saw a video where somebody made a bulletin board system over the mesh like it's fucking 1999 or something and it got me thinking Would it be possible to send web pages over the mesh as long as they were small?

I went to the DuckDuckGo homepage and copied its HTML source code into a text editor and found out it was something like 46,000 characters and with a 288 character limit it would take 145 messages to send that across. Each message would be something like 0.69% of that page.

It doesn't seem impossible, but you would have to make your pages very lightweight like they were in the 1990s in order to do it efficiently.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

When I first got online in the late 80s, it was at 300bps and, simplex i think.

There will always be something magical about watching text appear more or less letter by letter, and stream on to the screen. It also served as a constant ‘progress bar’ in so much as you knew your connection was live as long as text kept appearing.

Anyway, the reason I mention it that is that HTML pages in browsers, might need to be fully received before they will render ? Meaning there’d potentially be a lot of nothing until it’s ready to display.