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Not the entire internet, these developments are just about the WWW.
by cluckindan 1y ago
Not the entire internet, these developments are just about the WWW.
- chongli 1y agoAny part of the internet which starts to become popular faces the same fate. It's been known at least since September 1993 [1]. The "true internet", as people (myself included) remember so fondly, can only live on in obscurity. This is the dark forest hypothesis [2] for the internet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
- betaby 1y ago> these developments are just about the WWW. The article is literally about DNS.
- cluckindan 11mo agoAnd? It is literally a service for looking up Internet Protocol addresses.
- numpad0 1y ago(The whole http://example.com/index.html http://example.com/index.html thing is considered a mere application on the Internet among many, called World Wide Web, and not the Internet itself, but this is also quite pedantic)