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This is an amusing thread. FTP in the browser typically looks something like this https://imgur.com/20ooI9f https://imgur.com/20ooI9f Plenty of space for ads.

This is an amusing thread. FTP in the browser typically looks something like this https://imgur.com/20ooI9f https://imgur.com/20ooI9f Plenty of space for ads. HTTP is basically FTP with ads. Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that. You go to ftp://nytimes.com and it just has a directory structure that consists of yyyy/mm/dd and the file names where things like statement-from-chinese-ambassador-to-australia.txt And maybe a directory named breaking-news Imagine if Twitter was a list of text files named yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss-username.txt Ha. Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this --- Please place an x between the brackets as desired [ ] Whopper Meal [ ] Super sized Whopper Meal [ ] Coke [ ] Sprite [ ] Eat-in [ ] Takeaway etc Name on card: Card number: Expiry: Card Security Code: Sponsored by Nike and the Ford Motor Company ---- Edit: changes 'threat' to 'thread' in first line, typo could have been confusing. Second edit: made list verbatim.

ss64 7y ago
Yes but if one of those files was ADSENSE-one-wierd-trick.jpg Nobody would actually bother to download it would they!
Jaruzel 7y ago
> Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that. That's pretty much Gopher. Another protocol that Chrome no longer supports.
hedora 7y ago
You could write native apps on top of your proposed directory layouts, and it would be better than whatever people do today.
TeMPOraL 7y ago
> Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this I would love this. This has better UX than the food ordering sites we have to deal with in the real world.
ucs 7y ago
You’ve just described e-commerce circa 1990! On Usenet newsgroups and BBS conferences, sellers would post forms that looked exactly like that, except for the ads of course. Buyers would then send in their completed order form via either email/netmail or, preferably, via fax for added security. I remember always choosing to fax in my orders; even way back then, sharing credit card details via email seemed like a very bad idea.
coldtea 7y ago
>Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this Sounds like a total improvement over websites I have suffered... not to mention allows all kinds of third parties to create their own fancier ordering systems on top!

ss64 7y ago

Yes but if one of those files was ADSENSE-one-wierd-trick.jpg Nobody would actually bother to download it would they!

Jaruzel 7y ago

> Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that. That's pretty much Gopher. Another protocol that Chrome no longer supports.

hedora 7y ago

You could write native apps on top of your proposed directory layouts, and it would be better than whatever people do today.

TeMPOraL 7y ago

> Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this I would love this. This has better UX than the food ordering sites we have to deal with in the real world.

ucs 7y ago

You’ve just described e-commerce circa 1990! On Usenet newsgroups and BBS conferences, sellers would post forms that looked exactly like that, except for the ads of course. Buyers would then send in their completed order form via either email/netmail or, preferably, via fax for added security. I remember always choosing to fax in my orders; even way back then, sharing credit card details via email seemed like a very bad idea.

coldtea 7y ago

>Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this Sounds like a total improvement over websites I have suffered... not to mention allows all kinds of third parties to create their own fancier ordering systems on top!