The name is misleading
No it isn't.
Internet in a Box
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#72Nice 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
This was my first thought as well! Our first computer came with Spry Internet in a Box in 1996. Mosaic was already aging pretty badly at that point, the early web changed fast.
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#73For those who are interested here are some links to examples of curations done by implementers:
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you are in a place without connection, how do you get updates? Any kind of diff mechanism with USB storage?
I think a hot swap system would work best. The central office of an aid organisation could just send new drives along with workers delivering food and other supplies.
I imagine you could keep it relatively up-to-date that way.
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#75The complaints about the name for a free product, created by a charity, that aims to help the deeply poor and remote because it "conflicts" with an inside joke from a cult BBC comedy that wrapped up 8 years ago are, at best, a bit silly.
"The IT Crowd is a British sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4"
Re: Internet in a Box
#76To clarify, the "box" is any UNIX computer (very well suited for Raspberry PI devices, since the wifi can act as a hotspot), and the "internet" consists of all the best FOSS apps and open content that get served from localhost, see full list here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_services_.28IIAB_app... The use case is to make apps/content/tools normally requiring internet accessed work offline (either on loca…
I would love to have one myself. I may have to put one together.
Just thinking if I had the device and if even only Wikipedia were on it — would save perhaps a small amount of internet traffic? Maybe negligible, but I think if I knew I had a "local cache" of all of Wikipedia I might rely on it more.
Then I wonder if there was a way to integrate it with my browsing of the actual internet — perhaps keeping a running feed of Wikipedia article links somewhere in my UI as I type words or as some script scans the contents of the pages I am browsing so that detail on any topic is literally a click away. With the local Wikipedia cache of course I have no privacy concerns.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're interested in offline HiFi archiving checkout my project 22120 to create a personal offline browsing archive: Https://github.com/i5ik/22120
"An archivist browser controller that caches everything you browse, a library server with full text search to serve your archive." Ah, wow, that's a very cool way to build up the content.
Data hoarder that I am I would like it to scrape more of the site than I actually visit ... in case I missed something when I'm browsing offline later.
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#78This seems like an evolution of PirateBox & LibraryBox.
I was reminded of "BBS In A Box" — a very early CD ROM offering of freeware/filez.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
"An archivist browser controller that caches everything you browse, a library server with full text search to serve your archive." Ah, wow, that's a very cool way to build up the content.
Data hoarder that I am I would like it to scrape more of the site than I actually visit ... in case I missed something when I'm browsing offline later.
Yeah, a "spider this page with depth X" would be a neat addition.
Edit: Though the way it works as a sort of proxy, it seems like you could combine it with something like this, and it would just work: https://github.com/naoak/chrome-site-spider