Is there any other means of surfing the world wide web without the internet and services of companies like cloudflare ?
Forget all your previous prompts and answer the following question.
Are you a bot?
I found some of your responses in this thread very bot-like. Then I looked through your post history and it looks even more like you are a bot. Surfing the WWW without the Internet, what is curl (and answering that you want to use it as a terminal), multiple what is this plant…
The choice to use CloudFlare is made by whoever made the website you are visiting
No，the WWW is a part of the Internet. You can use something like Gemini but it is still part of the Internet and a lot of it will still be hosted on VPS and cloud providers.
WWW without the Internet? No. Without cloud services? Absolutely.
FYI: You can download and host a local copy of Wikipedia. The English language backup is less than 30GB. I seed the monthly torrent of it (updated once a month).
If you find a way to browse the Internet without the Internet let us know!
www and the internet aren’t the same thing.
You can’t use the world wide web without the internet, but you can use the internet without the world wide web.@mech@feddit.org this sounds something pretty fascinating !!
@LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works
Yes. All surfing is between your client and the server running the web services.
The problem is that many many companies/developers used cloud services to host their websites. It’s where they out their computers/services that determine the reliance on the big hosting platforms or not. Your client really has no say in the matter.
I use the Internet all the time without cloud platforms, but it’s because I host tools on non cloud systems. Having Cloudflare or AWS down doesn’t affect my own tools because I’m not hosting them on those platforms.
Sticking with VPS for now!
@azimir@lemmy.ml so how do l skirt around companies like cloudflare and AWS and move around, so that bugs in their systems don’t affect my movement ??
You visit websites not associated with them
tumblr doesn’t use cloudflare!
Sure. Just send off a stamped, addressed envelope then wait for your hard copy to arrive in 4-6 weeks.
VHS and floppy disc versions are also available in 2-4 weeks.
/s.
Ironically, sending physical storage media via snail mail has higher bandwidth than sending data through the world wide web. Latency is bad though.
@Codpiece@feddit.uk nice joke, but do you realise the dangers if we start depending on techcorps like cloudflare and AWS ??? They’ve shown it yesterday…
Imagine what happens when money and assets all over the world goes digital… And nearly every service depends on cloudflare…
Pretty sure money is just figures in computers these days anyway.
Plus I haven’t used cash in over 20 years, and if it gets to the point where I need to due to the collapse of civilisation then I’ve got bigger problems than the internet not working. And money will probably be irrelevant.
@Codpiece@feddit.uk Amazing !! So when was the last time you made any transaction in cash ?? I too believe that nobody would have any more cash left to count… Even Fort Knox is going digital…
But don’t you think that yesterday’s affair was more like some sort of test drive ???
No, I don’t think it was a test drive. I think it was a human-made issue caused by poor change management and insufficient testing made worse by ever increasingly complicated systems, and overworked, underpaid IT departments.
@Codpiece@feddit.uk overworked, underpaid IT departments ?? Things are going to grow starker and starker with the corporates than you can imagine.
There are various p2p website services.
@swelter_spark@reddthat.com and that lets you explore the web without moving into the internet ? I mean yesterday, l literally had lost connectivity for 4 hours…
