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<h1>Dataforge UUCP</h1>
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<li><a href="about.html">About Dataforge</a></li>
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<div style="color: green"><li>UUCP Manifesto</li></div>
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<li><a href="sites.html">Network Sites</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://uucp.dataforge.tk/~uucp/wiki/">Wiki</a><li>
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<h3>UUCP Manifesto</h3>
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We live in an age of increasing centralization and regulation of the Internet. Major swatches of the global's IP infrastructure
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now rests in the hands of major Internet properties such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. In addition, intrusive government
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policing is becoming prevalent, lack of privacy and increasing mis-use of data by marketing firms runs rampant. This runs contrary
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to the original idea and ethos of the internet, that ironically, was designed by the Department of Defense. Resilience,
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decentraliation and freedom are slowly becoming echoes of nostalgia.
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In response to this growing bastardization of IP infrastructure; groups, nerds and hackers have created independent communities
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based on privacy, decentralization of authority, and mututal respect for all people. Services such as shell providers, BBSes, and
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Tilde networks have become a new rennasaice of technical thought. A forum on the forum that is no more.
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In the formative days of the Internet, systems and sites were loosely linked over a protocol called UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy).
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Dedicated connections, such that have become common place now, were prohibitvely expensive. In response to this, universities and
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government research institutions formulated the UUCP network - a loosely coupled network of dial-up systems which relayed information
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across the network. Similar to Olympic torch relays. News, mail, files and a mulitude of services were provided by the UUCP network.
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In the early days of the Internet, a service known as Usenet was also carried across UUCP links and was in active service into the 2000s.
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As dedicated links have become more pervasive and affordable, the UUCP network slowly went away and faded to obscurity. While the UUCP
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protocol was designed from the ground up as a robust protocol ideal for communication over slow and unreliable data links with a great many
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virtues, it has been relegated to only the most obscure of legacy systems.
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Until now.
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We are a dedicated group of artists, system operators, nerds, geeks, nostalgics of every walk of life who desire a fully decentralized
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internet in the vein of the UUCP networks of yore. In this way, we have revived the network protocol adding modern essentials such
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encryption, permissions, better integration with dedicated links. While also keeping it's virtues of transparency, ease of implementation
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and resiliency. We also return to a place of mutual respect and understanding, freedom for all people who utilize it. Nobody "owns" it.
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It's everybody's to use, tinker with, contribte to and have equal say and access to its content and resources without fear of reprisal,
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condemnation or censorship.
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It is a return to a network for everybody, everywhere.
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