Lightning Talk: Can the Internet Function Without the Internet?

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Claims that a usable “internetless” web already exists and shows how to assemble it from four pieces: mesh networking for device-to-device hops, offline‑first web apps using service workers, IndexedDB and PWAs to run without servers, and content addressing via IPFS plus CRDTs for conflict‑free sync. Demo app SyncPad uses a PWA and CRDTs to merge edits between phone and laptop offline; cites real outages (seven‑day Taiwan cut) and projects like Filecoin as practical examples.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:45Can Internet Function Without Internet
3. 3:40Mesh Networking
4. 5:16Offline First Web Apps
5. 10:47Demo

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