@caekislove
>The half-baked crypto angle only hurt the idea, as implemented, I think.

The only other crypto aspect of ZeroNet, besides the .bit domains was that every ZeroNet site also acted as a Bitcoin wallet that you could donate to.

>I even bought a namecoin domain for my little zeronet site that may or may not still exist somewhere.

It probably still exists as long as at least one person is still seeding it. Last time I've actually checked ZeroNet was a couple of years ago (after the 08chan incident). I could still access some obscure sites on there. I thought that they would be gone.

Apparently, someone is forking ZeroNet right now, but is actually using a different protocol this time, so basically the old sites won't be compatible with the new ones anymore, at least that's what I think will happen. The original ZeroNet was built on-top of BitTorrent. People were convincing NoFish to use IPFS instead, but that never happened.