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They are not analogous. IRC is a chat protocol with semantics suitable for a chat protocol. HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you
by turminal 5y ago
They are not analogous. IRC is a chat protocol with semantics suitable for a chat protocol. HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you want to send. It doesn't have any significant semantic implications for sites like Twitter.
- root_axis 5y ago> HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you want to send. So what? They're analogous not identical. The distinction you point out isn't relevant to the point of the analogy. You wrote: > switching to another network is literally as simple as pointing the client to a different domain name. irc and http are the same in this respect, thus they are analogous.