Altern.org is a free web hosting service created in 1992 by Valentin Lacambre and disappeared in 2000. From its origins to the closure, Valentin Lacambre, a pioneer of Free Internet in France, had to permanently close the free hosting service in early July 2000 following numerous lawsuits. This closure was due to the laws of the time, which placed the delicate obligation on hosts to act as judge, censor, and, by default, guilty, as it was deemed difficult and contrary to his principles to control the 21,893 sites that existed on Altern.org at the time of closure.

Among the lawsuits, the famous Estelle Hallyday Case set a precedent and sparked much controversy. Nude photos of Estelle Hallyday, taken from a celebrity magazine and posted on a member's site of Altern.org, had angered the model, who then decided to take legal action against Altern.

Valentin Lacambre defined Altern as follows: "AlternB is the only service that meets both conditions: free without counterpart and open to all, which, for those who have chosen it, guarantees total independence, ideological and commercial, and therefore total freedom of expression."

In the spirit of the internet pioneers of the early 1990s, the internet was supposed to be free and open. Some educators were aware of the rising power of new information and communication technologies in connection with education (cf. ICT). Altern thus provided a connection to the world of education... a year before the national networking decided by the government.

In response to the law on intelligence, Altern.org announced its move to Norway in May 2015. In the lineage of the closure of Altern, a resistance was organized to keep the spirit of Altern alive. Several servers that previously hosted Altern sites were lent to initiatives to take over the project, such as l'Autre Net, Ouvaton, or l'Apinc.

Technically, the continuation of the project can be found in the voluntary development of AlternC, a free hosting platform that aims to multiply "alternative" hosts.

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