learning JavaScript & prototype i wrote a Twitter clone around this idea. I put up a number of textfiles in different user directories, and turned apaches direc

learning JavaScript & prototype i wrote a Twitter clone around this idea. I put up a number of textfiles in different user directories, and turned apaches directory listings on, and voilà a very basic restful interface. I also added post somehow, maybe a php script. The client-side script could read who to follow from the server and by itself performed the task of assembling the timeline which was the CPU and IO extensive task that twitter had problems scaling with. Not sure the extra bandwidth cost of performing this client side would be worth it, but there's almost no logic at all server side so there's not much scaling of processor power at least. Programming with prototype was fun, but then I found jQuery...