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Re:Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps by mghackerlady on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:21PM (#47065859)
In that case, we should build a new internet designed specifically to prevent this kind of behaviour and the slopification of the current internet. Let HTTP rot and build something a little less spartan than gemini but still resistant to slop. If anyone has the resources, my current idea is a p2p protocol for sharing some kind of markup that can do minimal styling and a client that doesn't need some kind of scripting language to do things like use buttons
Re:Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps by BillTthree on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:32PM (#47065996)
http isn't the internet. al gore created a series of tubes, and other folks built protocols to share information through those tubes. http is one protocol
Re:Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps by mghackerlady on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:37PM (#47066049)
You're right, I should have specified a new web. Gopher and usenet both still exist and aren't http