Nice idea, but as other commenters has pointed out, maybe not the best name. Back in the 90’s when I first connected to the internet, my ISP provided a package called Internet in a Box made by a company called Spry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBox
Internet in a Box
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#12Nice idea, but as other commenters has pointed out, maybe not the best name. Back in the 90’s when I first connected to the internet, my ISP provided a package called Internet in a Box made by a company called Spry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBox
Never heard of the company but I think it's much better than what we see otherwise. Like names of food or things that sound like something which has absolutely no relation to the product.
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#13Amusing name, but if it's not networked in any way, it's not really 'internet', it's just an extract of various sources that's pretty much static in time.
Sneakernet updates seem doable? If you follow the "adding the quality content" link to https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#add-cont... , there are many sources mentioned, like Kiwix ZIM files, which can include fairly frequent updates.
Re: Internet in a Box
#14Nice idea, but as other commenters has pointed out, maybe not the best name. Back in the 90’s when I first connected to the internet, my ISP provided a package called Internet in a Box made by a company called Spry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBox
Back in the 90’s
Well forget it then, it might as well have been a billion years ago. Internet in a Box is an ideal name - describes exactly what it does.
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#15The name is confusing, I also was expecting a reference to the IT Crowd. As others have suggested, a more direct and contextual name might help.
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#16Did Stephen Hawking demagnetise it? Shouldn’t it be on top of Big Ben?
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#17What? No one has mentioned Moss' "This is the Internet"?
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#18I like the idea. It would be cool if multiple devices could create a mesh network where students and teachers could communicate with each other without a connection to the global internet
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#19They should include StackOverflow, but it's probably illegal to scrape it.
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#20They should include StackOverflow, but it's probably illegal to scrape it.
The data is CC-licensed and they provide a download for a data dump, scraping it is just wasting your time.