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cblconfederate on Sept 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Napster.com banned at some universities for cloggi...

far more doesnt mean far more wide range. With P2P you could browse a server for the popular, as well as a bunch of things you d never heard. And it wasnt just music, just about anything , specifically very obscure stuff. anarchist material was something often uploaded. It was like you could see the whole jungle. Google is instead a zoo.

(Incidentally, what is the current evolution of gnutella, or any P2P that allows to browse the remote server?)

juangacovas on Sept 26, 2021 [–]

You reminded me The Eye [1], an archive of stuff like that including old software and an overwhelming bunch of non-mainstream and abandoned things

[1] https://the-eye.eu/

WallyFunk on Sept 26, 2021 | [–]

> Living without the knowledge of our past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots

We need a The Eye for The Eye that backs up The Eye

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