Now, before we start...
I seriously do not want this to happen.
I want Internet to remain accessible by everyone, anywhere, anytime, any day.
FCC and Ajit Pai, you turned rogue. You do not listen to us. Or, should I say you don't want to listen to us?
I know what's going on there. Stop it.
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The year is 2018.
After Internet got taken over by big corporations, people started to leave Internet behind and tried their best to find another way to communicate with others across the globe.
But how could we do that? We relied on corporations to manage our connections, and we don't know how to talk to someone in the know!
Now that the Internet is heavily censored and monitored by big corporations to oppress the Free Internet Movement, we needed to come up with some way to talk to people. To reunite. To collaborate. To save the Internet.
We tried other ways to use the Internet. But now with big corporations controlling everything, normal methods of communication was impossible.
We returned to the old times. Obsolete radio equipments. Old radio frequency communications. Ham operators. They banded together to form a small network of computers.
But that wasn't enough; We still needed to be able to communicate across the globe!
Then the hackers came into play. They salvaged every and anything they could find to make a small network a bigger network.
They used whatever technology they have -- Bluetooth, long-range radio signals, abandoned TV broadcasting equipments, Wi-Fi, lasers, optical cables, anything.
Sneakernets started popping up. They weren't dead. They were just sleeping.
Hackers, old operators, students, and other people banded together to form a big community once again.
They used whatever they knew to resurrect the Internet.
But it didn't last long.
Big corporations started hiring mercenaries to sabotage the small networks.
I don't know how we will be keeping our network away from them, but ours is alive for now.
