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Was it ever anything different? From the very beginning† -- you know, back to the <img> tag, HTTP 1.0 -- it was always a series of shrewd tradeoffs (a.k.a. "ha
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Was it ever anything different?
From the very beginning† -- you know, back to the <img> tag, HTTP 1.0 -- it was always a series of shrewd tradeoffs (a.k.a. "hacks") in favor of what can be put in front of people now instead of what might take another 5-8 years of IETF meetings and mailing lists debates to hash out.
† Referring to "the web" as such; not "the internet", for which the initial design choices, while still hackish in their own way, were arrived at in ways decidedly less brutish and expedient.