I was pleasantly surprised that in the early web everything was text based and super easy to mess around with. I didn't seriously expect this to last into the n

I was pleasantly surprised that in the early web everything was text based and super easy to mess around with. I didn't seriously expect this to last into the noughties, though. I believed that most of the protocols will quickly be replaced by something more efficient and binary. Maybe even signed and encrypted... Just when I started to think that will never happen, it happened;-)