Endless Thread presents Outside/In: How to build a solar-powered website
Endless Thread21 Apr 2023

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

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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