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> which is the reason HTTP is ascii based. well, other side of HTTP was telnet in the terminal - this is why it is ASCII to begin with
by Iwan-Zotow 5y ago
> which is the reason HTTP is ascii based.
well, other side of HTTP was telnet in the terminal - this is why it is ASCII to begin with
- tdeck 5y agoThis is not true. HTTP was developed for the first (graphical) web browser, WorldWideWeb. It was specifically intended to serve HTML and images, neither of which is particularly well suited for browsing with telnet.
- eloop 5y agoNot sure that is strictly correct. I vaguely remember a command line browser early in the piece. The inline image ability and <img> tag came a bit later in the story when Andreessen put it into the NCSA's Mosaic browser. I've always wondered if it was that single thing that really made the web take off, more so than hyperlinking which had been around for quite a while. People like pretty pictures, especially advertisers.
- tdeck 5y agoYou're describing the line mode browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser But that didn't just spit out the HTTP response - it parsed and rendered the HTML.