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No kidding... the Internet was original conceived of being made up of purpose specific protocols. FTP for file transfer, NNTP for chat boards, IRC for real-tim
by DLWormwood 17y ago
No kidding... the Internet was original conceived of being made up of purpose specific protocols. FTP for file transfer, NNTP for chat boards, IRC for real-time chat and so on. It was only with the hacked (over)use of NAT and wide spread deployment of lazily configured (read: over-paranoid) firewalls that this original vision was sidetracked through the HTTP pinhole (and is also hamstringing deployment of IPv6 to boot!)