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From the article: > It’s not obvious why Fielding thinks anyone would ever attempt to build such a thing given that the web already exists; perhaps in 2000 it
by alasdair_ 6y ago
From the article:
> It’s not obvious why Fielding thinks anyone would ever attempt to build such a thing given that the web already exists; perhaps in 2000 it seemed like there was room for more than one distributed hypermedia system in the world.
It’s worth remembering that Gopher was still a common thing in 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
- toyg 6y agoThose were the days - the web was one of many protocols, and people were still coming up with new things, new clients, new paradigms... Stuff like Napster, GNucleus/GNutella, RSS clients... Then Java applets failed, ActiveX got pwned into oblivion, people started using JS as a replacement runtime, and that killed absolutely everything else.