Comment by octoberfranklin

3 days ago

Carrier pigeons.

And hamsters.

Don't underestimate the hamsters.

Especially ones in a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

But seriously?

  • There are mesh networks, but even so IPv4 isn't down, and people can share files p2p.

    • Theoretically this is true, but in practice it's not. Most p2p services rely on the global internet in some way. The BitTorrent DHT, for example, is unlikely so self-heal in the event of a completely inaccessible global internet.

      Things like HolePunch have a lot of potential here, but you'd need an Iran-only DHT, and it's just not deployed at scale.