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> If the web was being made from scratch today, This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation. My answer is: start with a reliable system f
by LeonB 4y ago
> If the web was being made from scratch today,
This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation.
My answer is: start with a reliable system for exchanging CSV files. Add a few extensions and boom, everything’s possible.
- still_grokking 4y agoPlease no, not CSV. A strictly specified format would be in need instead.
- pasc1878 4y agoAnd isn't this on reason why XML was invented?
- still_grokking 4y agoSure. XML is a great tech. Much underrated today. (Besides the insanity that correct parsing would need network access, it's mostly very sound).
- blippage 4y ago> This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation. The web is such a complicated mess right now that I wish we would revert to it being just a document-based format. That's why I'm interested in things like gopher. Gopher pages can look surprisingly good. I ye olden days there were BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). It is stateful and all the heavy lifting is done server-side.