So I just saw a video where somebody made a bulletin board system over the mesh like it’s fucking 1999 or something and it got me thinking Would it be possible to send web pages over the mesh as long as they were small?
I went to the DuckDuckGo homepage and copied its HTML source code into a text editor and found out it was something like 46,000 characters and with a 288 character limit it would take 145 messages to send that across. Each message would be something like 0.69% of that page.
It doesn’t seem impossible, but you would have to make your pages very lightweight like they were in the 1990s in order to do it efficiently.
I had a pure HTML chapter of a book and it was 16 kilobytes and it looks like it would take two minutes and 16 seconds to get across on long fast and about 13 seconds to get across on short fast or short turbo.
13 seconds on shortfast seems pretty acceptable in my opinion. That sounds pretty typical for the era of BBS, and I feel like meshtastic as a whole is about sacrificing the latest and fastest tech, for something more rudimentary and a bit retro.