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Re: Internet in a Box

#11
This is such a cool idea.

When I was about 7-8 years old I used to get the "Tell me why" books, which were books that had 5-ish pages on all sorts of different topics.

https://archive.org/details/heresmoretellmew0000leok/page/n3...

These books sparked a lifelong curiosity in learning, I would sit for hours and hours and read them in my room. I hope that internet in a box inspires another generation of me's out there, who, like me, wouldn't otherwise have had access to this info.

Re: Internet in a Box

#13
post #5

So this allows people in poor countries to have access ONLY to the best curated resources available on the Internet? And those people then have a better chance at a much better education? Why not in developed countries schools as well?

Someone already thought of this and uploaded all of the contents of the box to a website! You can find it at wikipedia.com

Re: Internet in a Box

#16

This is cool but I feel like buying a 1000 count of cheap USB sticks and loading them with wikipedia or whatever would be cheaper and more useful.

probably access to chatgpt4o is a million times more useful than wikipedia imo

Yes, why does the developing world need an education system when we could be flooding them with AI hallucinations?

Re: Internet in a Box

#17
post #8

I remember encountering this project: https://piratebox.cc/faq , I even still have a compatible hardware at home. I wonder if allowing it to have instant messaging (including offline asynchronous messaging) would change how people in a small community communicate each other. I wonder if, for one, it would induce Internet trolling.

Doesn't seem likely - the key to trolling is lack of accountability, in a small community everyone would know you were being a jerk?

Re: Internet in a Box

#18

This is cool but I feel like buying a 1000 count of cheap USB sticks and loading them with wikipedia or whatever would be cheaper and more useful.

probably access to chatgpt4o is a million times more useful than wikipedia imo

Cool all they'll need to do is find $20/month per person for the subscription, how hard could that be in rural South Africa or Nepal?

Re: Internet in a Box

#19

This is cool but I feel like buying a 1000 count of cheap USB sticks and loading them with wikipedia or whatever would be cheaper and more useful.

What would they be plugging these USB flash drives into? Underdeveloped countries / regions have very low penetration with traditional laptops / desktop computers. But nearly everyone has a smartphone of some kind, which has WiFi. That's the reason the form factor of these are mobile hotspots.

Re: Internet in a Box

#20
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

probably access to chatgpt4o is a million times more useful than wikipedia imo

Cool all they'll need to do is find $20/month per person for the subscription, how hard could that be in rural South Africa or Nepal?

And an internet connection
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