Let me try to explain this succinctly. You have a program which is basically a framework for a "website" in which the user puts his skills, interests, etc. all kinds of useful information to get to know them or to decide if you want to know them. Instead of going on the internet however, the website goes on your computer, which you network up, locally, with your neighbours. First bonus - you don't have to pay for web-hosting. If you have an internet connection, you get first dibs on that connection but the program gives free access to the web to anyone in your local area network in order of how far the computer wanting to access the internet is from your computer. Second bonus - free internet for anyone who doesn't want to pay for it. The person paying for it doesn't lose anything cos he has priority over the others but no one uses their full bandwidth all the time, he has surplus which he can give away. People can look around their locality at anyone who has installed and filled in this program and find out about people around them without having to meet them. If there's a plumber in your area you can pay him cash or help him out in someway in return for him doing some plumbing for you if you need that done. If you don't live in a city you won't know how isolated it is, but no one knows each other. It's shite. Third bonus - the growth of community. I wanna know first, if this would work and second, if there's anyone out there who can program and fancies writing it. If it doesn't get a positive response on this site then I can't see it getting one anywhere - but it still probably won't put me off, I'm pretty stubborn.
It's kinda like the party-line type of phones they had back in the day. Scept now somebody would hack the shit out of everyone's computers, and the internet would be sporadic. It might work for emails, maybe.
