People are loving the connectedness. But after a big disaster, how to get on the internet?

I propose ham radio could be used for this. The hams are ferociously independent and locally sustain their own transmission abilities. Ham radio transmission can go on with a local generator. If wireless transmission could re rejiggered to use ham frequencies this would be very useful after a disaster.

It might help to have a more parsimonious use of data than current web browsers like: perhaps a bare bones disaster browser?
-- bungston, Sep 30 2009

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got me thinking... [bungston, Sep 30 2009]

Look up packet modems. This has been baked since long before the internet.
-- MechE, Sep 30 2009


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"I am only in my 4th day of network design so i could be wrong"
-- normzone, Sep 30 2009


Isn't this the same as packet radio, and isn't it what Alohanet used?
-- nineteenthly, Sep 30 2009


Packet radio occurred to me also, but, for reasons I can't quite explain, I got the feeling that's not what the idea is about.
-- tatterdemalion, Sep 30 2009



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