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Imagine if instead of resolving a name to an IP address, it resolved to a phone number. Loading any modern webpage would take a week of dialing to fetch all the
by calamari4065 3y ago
Imagine if instead of resolving a name to an IP address, it resolved to a phone number. Loading any modern webpage would take a week of dialing to fetch all the ads and trackers.
- jowea 3y agoAt least there would be an integrated payment system that works for microtransactions. Maybe we wouldn't have had the adweb.
- rasz 3y agoTelcos actually realized that dream in cellular networks. Tons of scams followed with random webservers automagically charging your wireless plan for "services" https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/chunyi/pubs/ccs12-peng.pdf https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/chunyi/pubs/ccs12-peng.pdf
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Imagine if instead of resolving a name to an IP address, it resolved to a phone number. Loading any modern webpage would take a week of dialing to fetch all the ads and trackers. FYI: - Minitel (France): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel This service was quite successful - Bildschirmtext (BTX, Germany): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext Less successful than Minitel in France, but also had its users