Ah yeah no disagreements there. Better something that already works and is widely used with good ecosystem around it, than risk an xkcd 927 situation. I unders

Ah yeah no disagreements there. Better something that already works and is widely used with good ecosystem around it, than risk an xkcd 927 situation. I understand that the people at the time (presumably) did it the best they could with the information and knowledge they had at the moment, while keeping backwards compatibility. I only know a bit about HTTP/0.9 and can see how we moved from that to what we have today. I just find the current situation sad. Like when something only supports ASCII, or only supports IPv4, or assumes I only have 1 CPU thread. Or like when some binary file is encoded in base64 before being sent over the network, only to be decoded on the receiving end. Stuff like that. But I only feel that way thanks to having the huge benefit of hindsight and modern technology.