Your visit to the demo

History

Every page you open here, kept in this browser and, for 30 days, in the demo's database: under a hash of an id each tab makes, with no IP address, cookies or user agent.

Database

Keeps your history

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The pages and searches you open here are kept in it for 30 days, as well as in this browser: the page's path (no other part of its address), its title or the search words, whether you came by the back and forward buttons, and the server's time. Never your IP address, user agent, cookies or any other header.

Each tab makes its own id, the time it opened by your clock and twelve random characters. The database keeps only a hash of it, which tells neither, and only a browser holding the id can read the session back or delete it; the Clear button deletes every one this browser sent. Like any database, it can be read by the people who run the demo.

How it is kept

Plain files first. Each tab is a session, a folder named for the moment it began. Every app writes its own file of JSON Lines inside it, one event per line, and reading a session is reading them all in order of time. The database keeps a copy of the lines, never the other way round.

~/.innernet/history/
└ 2026-10-27T20-18-44Z_rzuoyf/
    innernet.jsonl   written here
    notes.jsonl      any other app

A local Innernet writes this folder to ~/.innernet/history, with its copy in ~/.innernet/db. The demo keeps the same events in your browser, and for 30 days in its database.

One line, one event

A time, the app, a kind of event, and any fields it likes. Innernet writes visit, search, back and forward.

{"at":"2026-10-27T20:18:46Z","app":"innernet","kind":"visit","url":"/wiki/galileo","title":"galileo"}

Add your own

Any app or script joins the newest session by appending to a file of its own name:

echo '{"at":"'$(date -u +%FT%TZ)'","app":"notes","kind":"edit","file":"todo.md"}' >> "$(ls -d ~/.innernet/history/*/ | tail -1)notes.jsonl"

App names are lowercase letters, digits, - and _. Lines over 4 KB, and lines that are not JSON, are skipped.