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This reminds me of "usenet binaries." The very existence of binaries on usenet still makes me chuckle. It's such a strange medium for binaries, and yet it was
by 2bitencryption 11y ago
This reminds me of "usenet binaries."
The very existence of binaries on usenet still makes me chuckle. It's such a strange medium for binaries, and yet it was so prolific.
- userbinator 11y agoIt's not that strange if you think of things like email attachments... or do you also consider that to be "a strange medium for binaries"?
- inopinatus 11y agoNNTP is a general-purpose, globally meshed & distributed, channelized, eventually-consistent pub/sub bus. With optional ordering, GC, and replay semantics, and robust and stable implementations of both client and server protocol available in a variety of language bindings. So the only real surprise is that it isn't everything's preferred loose-coupling substrate, but we do love reinventing the wheel.