> 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 t

> 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