Usually when I think of ideas for apps I think are unique, and wish I had one it turns out they're around, and have been for years. If that's the case here, where are they? I want one.

So I was reading this article here...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40492.html

It's about this book tea party activists are pushing called The Starfish and the Spider. Don't hate me yet. This is not political, but here's the basic premise.

“The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations,” has a thesis with understandable attraction for tea partiers — that poorly funded groups and companies loosely organized around basic shared ideas can change society, often by outmaneuvering governments or mega-corporations.

The title is based on the contrasting biology of spiders, which die when their heads are chopped off, and starfish, which can multiply when any given part is severed — a trait the book’s authors posit is shared by decentralized entities ranging from Alcoholics Anonymous to Al Qaeda to Wikipedia.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40492.html

Perhaps you could add decentralized file sharing networks to the list at the bottom there.

In the early days of the internet boom there were these apps which would allow you to paste notes onto other people's web pages. You could view those notes only if you had the application to allow viewing.

They weren't decentralized though. They were companies looking for ways to monetize. They didn't allow filesharing. What if they were though, and you could?

You could kind of float about the internet glomming onto internet pages chatting and sharing, in groups, or independently, dark, or in the open, and you couldn't be stopped, because nobody would own the network.

You'd be kind of like internet barnacles. In fact if it turns out by some miracle I am the first person to think of this, and some open source group decides to do it, I want to name it The Barnacle.

For example, you're surfing either in your Barnacle program, or with it attached to your browser. You visit the site for Billboard's Top 100. There are all these icons to click on of people chatting about the songs on the page. You like that song # 17. You click on that Barnacle note. People are talking about it. Maybe there's a link to a torrent. Or maybe a guy's just talking about having downloaded it. You PM him. It could be links to links, or if you trust you might even peer to peer.

Web Sherrif wouldn't even have an address of anybody to send a threatening email to. Once it's out there. How could you stop it?

Back in the days when these programs existed where you could attach notes to other people's web pages on an unseen network, there was no decentralizing capability. There were no torrents. There are now, but it seems we've all forgotten about the old web page sticky trick.

Could it be done?