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A vision of GlobalTalk's future
It is 2036, and the Internet as we know it is long dead, reduced to a feudal wasteland of app-only walled gardens.

All important communication is confined to 400kb MFS floppy disks, taped under trash can lids and park benches by clandestine revolutionary types.

'Encryption' is a rare experimental font (Zapf Dingbats v0.35b) released in 1985. Any System 7 Macintosh with a working floppy drive is now worth four dozen eggs-an amount unheard of since the Chicken Panic of '27.

After the post-crisis shakeup in '34, we were lucky to gain a person on the inside.

There was a loophole exploit that allowed them to disable National Al Snooping™ on UDP port 387 from UTC 0300-UTC 0400 every Thursday, during the weekly Lords of Capital meeting.

And thus it began. The #GlobalTalk Revolution of 2036.

Our international flag of unity is the cool crab pride flag, with the motto, "Live, Laugh, LocalTalk ⇄" inked in Chicago across the bottom...

@likesoldmacs, January 2025
A vision of GlobalTalk's future It is 2036, and the Internet as we know it is long dead, reduced to a feudal wasteland of app-only walled gardens. All important communication is confined to 400kb MFS floppy disks, taped under trash can lids and park benches by clandestine revolutionary types. 'Encryption' is a rare experimental font (Zapf Dingbats v0.35b) released in 1985. Any System 7 Macintosh with a working floppy drive is now worth four dozen eggs-an amount unheard of since the Chicken Panic of '27. After the post-crisis shakeup in '34, we were lucky to gain a person on the inside. There was a loophole exploit that allowed them to disable National Al Snooping™ on UDP port 387 from UTC 0300-UTC 0400 every Thursday, during the weekly Lords of Capital meeting. And thus it began. The #GlobalTalk Revolution of 2036. Our international flag of unity is the cool crab pride flag, with the motto, "Live, Laugh, LocalTalk ⇄" inked in Chicago across the bottom... @likesoldmacs, January 2025
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