THE INTERNET

[valere@hostux.social]

Since this has been shared quite a bit, a quick heads-up: this might be AI slop. I just stumbled upon the image online and reposted it without thinking twice. My bad!

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@valere From ARPANET to TCP/IP to global greatness before being seized by the techno-oligarchs.
Yet another great leap for all mankind that became enshittified in the name of rampant capitalism, power and greed. Now also a tool to spread disinformation in addition to legitimate uses. Trust nothing.

[dryak@mstdn.science]

@AndiPopp @valere noticed exactly the same.

[nico@lepoulsdumonde.com]

@valere so what ? Stop looking at the finger…

[worldtravelerall7@mastodon.world]

@valere I thought it looked like this

[troupier@framapiaf.org]

@valere don't care that's a good one.

[kleines_z@queer.group]

@aria @valere @LunaDragofelis
So AI is the reason for this Meme in more than one way.

[ogjester@pnw.zone]

@valere *See also: society.*

[disco3000@climatejustice.social]

@valere nice detail, the small pillar maintained by a single person in Nebraska in the last 10yrs is still standing

[alpacamale@social.cologne]

@valere Yeah, some of the lines are weird. It's funny, it's not like this would be particularly hard to draw without AI.

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@valere @LunaDragofelis @aria this response is best followed up by removing the post ^^

[madness832@mstdn.party]

@valere I have some duct tape!

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@aria @valere It was.

The OSI folks were complaining about it 40 years ago before it ever became popular.

The majority of the flaws I complain about were glaringly obvious at the design stage.

But corposcum & fascist sabotage means we're stuck with TCP/IP instead.

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@hsza @aria @valere @LunaDragofelis There is edit capacity that works for images. Why not just use GNU Imp to remake it manually and replace the image?

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@lispi314 @aria @valere pretty sure OSI is younger than 40

[leonid@norden.social]

@valere https://norden.social/@leonid/117502460880374908

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz @aria@awawa.club @valere@hostux.social The protocol wars date back to at least the 1980s (we are in 202X).

Cyclades is from 1976 at latest.

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@lispi314 @aria @valere I think I misunderstood

[p3ter@mastodon.social]

@valere #Historian #LongTerm #Preservation senses tingling:

Missing metadata:
* #DublinCore.Date
* DublinCore.Source

I assume, someone has a working and complete backup of "The Internet" to restore from?

[simon_brooke@mastodon.scot]

@tusharhero @lispi314 @aria @valere

You bet wrong. I was running comms from Lancaster to Manchester, Reading and London over X.25 (one of the Orange Book protocols) in 1986. The Orange Book was then ten years old, so OSI is at least fifty years old.