Is there any other means of surfing the world wide web without the internet and services of companies like cloudflare ?

  • CagedDingo@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    19 hours ago

    No，the WWW is a part of the Internet. You can use something like Gemini but it is still part of the Internet and a lot of it will still be hosted on VPS and cloud providers.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    WWW without the Internet? No. Without cloud services? Absolutely.

    FYI: You can download and host a local copy of Wikipedia. The English language backup is less than 30GB. I seed the monthly torrent of it (updated once a month).

  • Codpiece@feddit.ukEnglish
    61·
    1 day ago

    Sure. Just send off a stamped, addressed envelope then wait for your hard copy to arrive in 4-6 weeks.

    VHS and floppy disc versions are also available in 2-4 weeks.

    /s.

    • TheracAriane@thebrainbin.orgOP
      1·
      12 hours ago

      @[email protected] nice joke, but do you realise the dangers if we start depending on techcorps like cloudflare and AWS ??? They’ve shown it yesterday…

      Imagine what happens when money and assets all over the world goes digital… And nearly every service depends on cloudflare…

      • Codpiece@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Pretty sure money is just figures in computers these days anyway.

        Plus I haven’t used cash in over 20 years, and if it gets to the point where I need to due to the collapse of civilisation then I’ve got bigger problems than the internet not working. And money will probably be irrelevant.

        • TheracAriane@thebrainbin.orgOP
          1·
          4 hours ago

          @[email protected] Amazing !! So when was the last time you made any transaction in cash ?? I too believe that nobody would have any more cash left to count… Even Fort Knox is going digital…

          But don’t you think that yesterday’s affair was more like some sort of test drive ???

          • Codpiece@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            No, I don’t think it was a test drive. I think it was a human-made issue caused by poor change management and insufficient testing made worse by ever increasingly complicated systems, and overworked, underpaid IT departments.

  • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Yes. All surfing is between your client and the server running the web services.

    The problem is that many many companies/developers used cloud services to host their websites. It’s where they out their computers/services that determine the reliance on the big hosting platforms or not. Your client really has no say in the matter.

    I use the Internet all the time without cloud platforms, but it’s because I host tools on non cloud systems. Having Cloudflare or AWS down doesn’t affect my own tools because I’m not hosting them on those platforms.