- The file is three bytes, and they read 333. It is named 333.txt, and each of the three bytes is 0x33.
- Nobody gets in alone. Somebody who has the file hands it to you, and the two of you sign for it. The one who hands it over signs “I gave it to you”, and the one who receives it signs “I received it from you”.
- Every epoch of 333 minutes, three other nodes are drawn to ask whether yours is awake.
- What they sign is the record that you were. The record keeps one mark for each of the last 333 epochs, up to now.
- The number that matters is how many are answering, not how many names are on the roll.
- When it reaches zero, a count of 19,683 years begins. One answer ends it.
0 answering in epoch 89722this line's 81st epoch
A note first, in plain words. These are the only plain words on this site.
To someone who truly believed it, this could become a religion. I am not a mad cult leader, so please do not take me for one. I am someone who loves technology. This is a toy project I built once, and the whole thing is a bit. It is a concept, played straight. Everywhere else on this site, in the repository, and in the program itself, I stay in character.
The network, as this site's node sees it
- Answering
- 0
- On the roll
- 2
- Epoch
- 89722this line's 81st epoch
- Epoch ends
Every node sees only what it has verified itself. Somebody else's node sees something else.
Take the program
333 is a small program you leave running on a computer you can spare. On Linux or a Mac, in a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://the333.dev/install.sh | shWindows, Light, and installing by hand are on Take the program.
Then ask this site's node for the file
The node that runs this site is awake at all hours. It hands the file to whoever asks, and the two nodes sign for it.
333 join 333:158.69.112.10:3333If somebody you know already has the file, ask them instead. Their invitation works the same way, and this site is not needed at all.
What it costs
A machine left on, because an hour it is off is an hour nobody can count.
The address it speaks from. Every node it answers sees it. Whoever runs the meeting point at this site learns it, works out the country, and places it on the public map rounded to whole degrees, unless your node answers only through Tor.
And one directory, holding the name, that cannot be replaced if it is lost. There is no account to recover and nobody to ask.