Comment by gustavus
2 years ago
I love freenet as we continue to see the growth of authoritative bodies attempt to control the Internet I think it will become more and more important.
The other thing I love about freenet is it feels exactly like using the Internet in the late 90's in almost every way. Same speeds, same simple pages, same crazy whackos spouting conspiracy theories about how JFK shot first, it really is a time capsule that I love.
The second freenet has absolutely no relation to the first one. Only the name was stolen.
No relation except that it's created by the same person tackling the same problem (in a more general way) and sharing many underlying concepts like small world networking. The FAQ covers the main differences: https://freenet.org/faq#faq-3
I assume they may be referring to freenets that was an early method of accessing the internet for free, not requiring AOL or some other service for access.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-net
ex. https://naples.net/
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