Resources
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Links & direct downloads of everything mentioned in posts & then some!
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Archaic Binary
https://www.archaicbinary.net/bbsArchaic Binary
An active BBS that includes games & social networking.
Bitreich
gopher://bitreich.org
An organization interested in reviving gopher & simplifying software.
Brutaldon
https://brutaldon.online/about
A brutalist web interface for the Mastodon platform.
Brutalist Web Design
https://www.brutalist-web.design/
A call for more simple & accessible web design.
Cloud Firewall
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cloud-firewall/
A Firefox add-on devoted to blocking any communications hosted on GAFAM & Cloudflare.
Dieter Rams- "10 Principles for Good Design"
https://readymag.com/shuffle/dieter-rams/
An iconic manifesto that influences graphic design to this day.
Edsger W. Dijkstra- "The Humble Programmer"
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html
Dijkstra's 1972 ACM Turing Prize lecture. Still relevant.
E.W. Dijkstra Archive
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
U of Texas' digitized collection of Edsger W. Dijkstra's manuscripts on programming.
Floodgap's Gopherspace
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/
THE entry point to the gopersphere. Includes intros, tutorials, & Veronica, a gopher search engine.
Freenet
https://freenetproject.org
A peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing.
Ian Clarke et al. "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage & Retrieval System"
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/615/freenet.pdf
The landmark essay where Freenet is firt theorized.
Lynx Browser
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
The oldest web browser still actively maintained. Text-based, simple, & pre-JavaScript.
Mastodon
https://joinmastodon.org
A federated social network; this is the front page for new users to find an instance.
Monochrome BBS
https://www.mono.org/
The oldest BBS system in existence
Motherfucking Website
http://www.motherfuckingwebsite
A satire on web design bloat.
Paul Baran- "On Distributed Communications"
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf
Pioneering 1964 essay for the RAND corporation that theorizes the internet.
PRISM Break
https://prism-break.org/en/
A user-friendly guide for escaping proprietary spyware.
Secure Scuttlebutt
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
The gateway to the decentralized, off-the-grid social network.
Tactical Technology Collective
https://tacticaltech.org/
A group devoted to online privacy & fighting data collection
Tilde.Black
https://tilde.black
A public access Unix system focused on anonymity & privacy.
Tor Project
https://www.torproject.org
Information about the most accessible of the dark web protocols.
