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