In elaborate terms: you have the ability to change any one of the protocols, specifications, designs or standards of the above at their proposal stage or before their mass adoption. You may choose to modify or reject an existing one or create one by yourself.
Some users and I would have common ideas in mind, however I would love to see some esoteric ideas as well.
Stop IPv6 from existing.
Make IPv5, add a fifth number to the address, and improve NAT.
Not every particle in the universe needs a publicly routable address.
Upvoting, not because I necessarily agree but because its a good discussion.
I would make the default home router ip a human recognizable number like 123456 or something.
I would make it so complex software has an accessible console for commands and readouts/logs of previous commands like AutoCAD.
I would make it so mouse driven UIs were designed from the bottom up to be tightly integrate with command line views. This would make tutorials, learning and utilization of commands so much more efficient.
I also would make it so every UI element/window/toolbar of complex software had a specific ID number you could use to put into a search engine, search documentation or ask for help with.
Prevent MS from forcing their docs xml standard on us all.
One? Tie between redoing CFAA, DMCA, and privacy regulations before they became problems.
I think web 2.0 (ie. the internet after standards bodies had congealed around the browser stack of tech) would have been better off as a complete redesign. Sure we made SPAs work on top of the hodge-podge of shit that is HTML/CSS/JS, but at what cost? Before React and it’s ilk, there were many attempts to bring desktop GUI-like toolkits to the web which imo was a superior paradigm. Now, a browser is basically a shitty VM with horrible abstractions for web applications. If only we’d stopped and rethought that. WASM was also a chance for that to happen, but 1.0 is so limited (can’t challenge the browser too much! it makes google money!). And the fractured WASI nonsense that exists now means we’ll never get to the point where it could replace it.
Hard to say, but we needed to leave a minimum level of a learning curve to using any computer, not a PHD required, but enough to bore the red hats. As soon as Apple’s toddlerfication of smashing BIG, bright, colorful, soft shapes made it so everyone in the world could gold the history of humanity’s knowledge in their pocket… They started confusing their pocket with their brains. Holding knowledge doesn’t mean HAVING knowledge.
The instant and infinite false confidence that magic slab gives hateful idiots was our downfall as a species.
Forums and YouTube remain the main forms of social media. No Facebook or anything of the like.
Break up Youtube into a federated service, and your idea would be perfect. :)
I’m not really that smart when it comes to protocols but I would go to Stanford University and guard the IT cabinet and tell Aaron Schwarz to stay the fuck out and go do something else.
No urls only the IP address and no hyperlinks.
Cookies and browser fingerprinting illegal.
Archival of all web pages. (Some exceptions such as takedown of CP or revenge porn).
What’s the point of no hyperlinks? Now you just copy-paste the address into your browser instead
Just because lol
I’ll just go with introducing IPv6 from the very start
I wonder what impact that would have had on early hardware because it would require more memory for the TCP stack
This.
Everyone is directly connected to the network.
Everyone can host anything we want. No centralisation.
Trivial peer to peer.
A whole ecosystem of worms infesting every computer.
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Wait, no, not that last one.
Can I get a ELI5 on why IPv6 is bad or not very good?
I tried a couple of times to understand how it works. I’m too dumb or my attention deficit is stronger than previously thought or all of the above.
Publish Piefed before Lemmy ever existed to minimize the tankie influence
Making email free was a mistake. Makes sense to encourage early adoption but long term it’s been a no-lose proposition for spammers, phishing, and general aggressive marketing.
I’d argue the opposite. We need more things to be free and standardized. There is no universal way to send a file, store a file, send a text or picture message for example. Email, with a basic design that’s over 40 years old has had to fulfill all of that itself, and does so reasonable well, all things considered.
I’d make the internet automatically fact check everything
Make it harder. Remove the gui. Require UNIX knowledge. Command line only.
Keep the mouth breathers out.
A very anti-“Eternal September” sentiment.
Think of all the AOL discs eliminated! 😉
Given the ability, I’d get rid of the Internet completely.
