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Alternative take: all protocols die a slow death, being replaced by centralised services. XMPP was replaced by WhatsApp. SMTP is being replaced by Gmail. HTTP
by akrymski 4y ago
Alternative take: all protocols die a slow death, being replaced by centralised services. XMPP was replaced by WhatsApp. SMTP is being replaced by Gmail. HTTP will probably get replaced by some binary Chrome protocol, etc. At some point network effects kick in, and you just don't need a decentralised protocol when most users are on the same system.
- mike_hearn 4y agoHTTP was already replaced by HTTP/2, which is mostly SPDY rebranded - a protocol developed by Google. They weren't satisfied with that so now HTTP/2 is being replaced with QUIC, a binary protocol implemented first in Chrome.