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gustavusyesterday at 8:24 PM1 replyview on HN

In my early days of technology tinkering when I was young I was always interested in security, and one day I stumbled upon freenet, and my world changed.

It was amazing and led me to get far more acquainted with the cyberpunk scene. It was this alternative separate internet from what the rest of the world saw with all of the good and bad that brought.

I've been meaning to set it up again and get back into it. I will say for everyone pining for the Internet of yesteryear freenet is it. Go and explore it it is everything the 90's Internet was like, super slow, crazy unhinged nerds all over the place random collections of links, crazy.

Thanks for all you've done Ian

Edit: Btw what is the best way to support the project and get involved?


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sanityyesterday at 9:20 PM

Thank you!

If you're in a position to support the project financially you're more than welcome to donate[1], we're a 501c3 non-profit and all funds go to support development.

If you're a developer and are interested in building on Freenet I suggest starting with https://freenet.org/build/manual/tutorial/, you can also join our Matrix room[2], or install Freenet[3] and chat with us on River[3], our decentralized group chat.

[1] https://freenet.org/donate/

[2] https://matrix.to/#/#freenet-locutus:matrix.org

[3] https://freenet.org/quickstart/