This reminds me of the guy who said drop box was stupid because he could set up an ftp server. It’s the exact same argument. People understand PDFs, they are e

This reminds me of the guy who said drop box was stupid because he could set up an ftp server. It’s the exact same argument. People understand PDFs, they are extremely common in the academic and business world as “digital paper” standalone documents. Hypothetically, anything in memory can be made into a file but in this scenario what matters is the practical goal of people actually using these files. I think it makes sense for the web to be made up of discreet primitives not only so that the web can be browsed in an intuitive and frictionless way but also because it lends itself to being backed up and easily re-hosted.