Sat Aug 17 21:20:11 UTC 2024 There's a romance to the idea of living off-grid, avoiding the bullshit of the modern web yet retaining the advantages of networked communication. Plugd imagines a scenario in which an isolated gardener is able to keep up with a supportive community with periodic trips to a local internet access point that allows her to post to and get the latest news on a message board that can only be accessed using NNCP. [1] I have long been fascinated by the protocol and this was the push I needed to try it. Plugd's Offline BBS is live [2]. Come visit! [1] gopher://thelambdalab.xyz:70/0phlog/2024-08-16-Offline-BBSing.txt [2] gopher://thelambdalab.xyz/0/offline.txt