So I am chuckling at the idea that some young guns who want to be "free" to do what ever they want in their network of computers to come up with a scheme where they are will use telephones to call up one computer to the next, and addressing will be free form a series of "hops" where you tell the computer what sequence of machines will have to be called in order to get your message from you to your destination. You could use a character like ! to separate the hops making an address 'bobs-machine!piratebay!alices-machine!alice' delivering through three hops to Alice.
We'll also need something to deal with these high-latency links. A piece of hardware which generates the ACKs locally so our computers will send faster will sell like gangbusters! It'll really pep up the connections.
So I am chuckling at the idea that some young guns who want to be "free" to do what ever they want in their network of computers to come up with a scheme where they are will use telephones to call up one computer to the next, and addressing will be free form a series of "hops" where you tell the computer what sequence of machines will have to be called in order to get your message from you to your destination. You could use a character like ! to separate the hops making an address 'bobs-machine!piratebay!alices-machine!alice' delivering through three hops to Alice.