Endless Thread presents Outside/In: How to build a solar-powered website

Endless Thread

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4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What if the internet was only available most of the time? This week, Endless Thread presents an episode of Outside/In — a podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio — about a man in Barcelona who is trying to make the material infrastructure behind the internet as visible and low tech as possible, by building a solar-powered website.

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0:00.0	WBWR Podcasts Boston.
0:13.8	Amory Seabret Center, you into low tech?
0:18.4	Maybe.
0:19.4	I don't know what that means.
0:22.2	What would you think it means?
0:24.0	Like just not on the internet or like an internet powered by a bicycle.
0:33.0	Oh, see, you're not far off.
0:35.9	You are not far off.
0:36.9	I thought you were going to say, you know, because I know how you think about technology.
0:40.3	I thought you were going to say like tech that was low to the ground.
0:43.5	That's what my guess about your guess was going to be.
0:46.2	Yeah.
0:47.2	Some like toilet paper tube technology.
0:52.7	Yeah, you can do anything with a toilet paper tube.
0:57.7	Well, we have got a story for you today.
1:00.7	It is about the internet and a website that goes dark depending on the weather forecast.
1:06.7	It comes from our friends at New Hampshire Public Radio.
1:09.7	And Sympathico Partners in Podcasting Crime, Nate Hegey and Justine Paradise.
1:15.7	We're letting them take the wheel this week while we work on some upcoming endless thread greatness.
1:20.7	From NHPR's podcast outside in, here's how to build the solar powered website.
1:33.7	This is outside in I'm Nate Hegey.
1:35.7	And I'm Justine Paradise.
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