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I remember Cicada 3301. This is based on a post I made on BBS forums long before social media. Back then 'Tech' people were limited in numbers. Possibly seen as an annoyance if anything. We all had handles not usernames. Possibly coming from the sideband eras. There was Rollergirl (pretty sure she died) and Admin (yes the 'Admin' days) and so many others. It was the very beginning of policing a non restricted area, actually there were zero laws on the Internet. The 'DarkWeb' hadn't even begun, it was more about free Servers and proxies, and then to constantly move. If you didn't keep up, then you dropped off forever, as it was all about privacy. We worked out that: 1. Information should always be free. (capitalism destroyed this) 2. Privacy does matter. (privacy now completely gone, unless you are off, off the grid) The idea was to keep freedom and privacy alive (of course now dead). Actually these days everyone fights to be non private! And everyone is against free music, games, vids etc. - it's a crazy upside down world. Cicada 3301 (frustratingly slow) tried to build a web of private people, off the Internet. It was supposed to be Internet2, as everyone believed the common Internet would go down. But who wants to read a book? Or physically wander around in search of data? This new Web idea lost traction. Plus to 'unplug' from the world is limiting yourself! Internet2 could not work. Cicada 3301's challenge was to locate the 'special people' off grid, it became a lonely dead end. If you're still out there Cicada 3301, let me know. But I suspect you are a mere empty shell of an individual left behind still clawing onto its tree.
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@aphztic Spread the word
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@logpo5402 The main thing it was about was a new Internet. Really that was it. It never worked.
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@logpo5402 I can re-write the entire thing I said about this decades ago. The people fought NOT to be private! The people fought NOT to have free stuff. There were reasons for this. For anti privacy it was about safety, especially of where every child is every second of the day. I see the argument but I still dismiss it as overall it means we ALL lose our privacy. Music, movies, games manufactures etc. Require money otherwise how could they bring out the next best thing. 'Free' data can't work because then capitalism will fall. I DISPUTE this argument too, as we now have the means to allow data to be spread freely across the world, even Internet coverage! Its all free by satellites in space, that's why car GPS signals are fully free. What the heck is all this Internet services you must pay for? And why can't the people have 'data' (in whatever form) which currently exists? The arguments were most strong at the Cicada 3301 era (and long before). His idea was to make Internet2. To tell you the truth it was an interesting concept and really why the DarkWeb began. Sadly it didn't take off, because the people (everywhere) didn't want privacy or freedom. And they had arguments for this (stated above). WE (back then) lost. And that is all.
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