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The history of the web is an odd substance: always present and eternal, yet profoundly ephemeral and immediately forgotten. It becomes increasingly difficult to imagine obscure roads not taken in the deeper architecture of the internet [49] with every fork. Before the dominance of compute in the cloud, distributed computing projects like folding@home were more powerful than any supercomputer [50]. Before the dominance of cloud video streaming platforms, peer-to-peer systems accounted for a majority of global internet traffic: in the mid-2000’s between 49% and 95%, depending on the survey.
[49]: Except by the scores of beloved nerds in exile on the freer parts of the internet who remember the death of IRC and RSS and the weaponization of JavaScript acutely and personally.
[50]: During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic a wave of folding@home volunteers broke the exascale computing barrier and made it more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers combined — filling a need that the cloud either couldn’t or wouldn’t.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/431340 "[footnote 49 is highlighted, it is linked from the [49] in the text and reproduced at the bottom beneath the body text]
The history of the web is an odd substance: always present and eternal, yet profoundly ephemeral and immediately forgotten. It becomes increasingly difficult to imagine obscure roads not taken in the deeper architecture of the internet [49] with every fork. Before the dominance of compute in the cloud, distributed computing projects like folding@home were more powerful than any supercomputer [50]. Before the dominance of cloud video streaming platforms, peer-to-peer systems accounted for a majority of global internet traffic: in the mid-2000’s between 49% and 95%, depending on the survey.
[49]: Except by the scores of beloved nerds in exile on the freer parts of the internet who remember the death of IRC and RSS and the weaponization of JavaScript acutely and personally.
[50]: During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic a wave of folding@home volunteers broke the exascale computing barrier and made it more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers combined — filling a need that the cloud either couldn’t or wouldn’t.")