Resources ========= Links & direct downloads of everything mentioned in posts & then some! ========= 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.