title: "I built a tiny alternative internet in pure Python — a protocol, a browser, and a firewall" published: false tags: python, networking, showdev, programming canonical_url: https://abouttime-d5a.pages.dev/project-weft
Someone said "let's make a new internet" — sarcastically. So I made a working one.
Not a metaphor, not a framework. weft is a small line-based protocol over raw TCP, with its own address scheme, its own markup, a terminal browser that speaks it, and an application-layer firewall you can drive in the browser. Three little servers link to each other to form a network. It's all pure Python standard library — zero dependencies — and the whole thing is a few hundred lines.
It will never scale to a billion users. That was the point.
The bet
