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Third try is a charm: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.html?pg=2 http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.html?pg=2
by TYPE_FASTER 12y ago
Third try is a charm: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.html?pg=2 http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.html?pg=2
- eli 12y agoMy first thought as well. I still remember the cover.
- nkoren 12y agoVividly, yes. "The Internet is all about Push now!" That was 17 years ago. Makes one jaded.
- wiremine 12y agoI, too, remember the original issue. I thought it was mostly BS back then, but re-reading the first page made me reconsider it: "Sure, we'll always have Web pages. We still have postcards and telegrams, don't we? But the center of interactive media - increasingly, the center of gravity of all media - is moving to a post-HTML environment, a world way past a Web dominated by the page, beyond streamed audio and video, and fast into a land of push-pull, active objects, virtual space, and ambient broadcasting. You might not want to believe us, but a place where you can kiss your Web browser goodbye." "But hang on. The good old page browser won't disappear. It will migrate. The little string of code that fetches and displays HTML documents will go forth and multiply, making what your browser does today second nature to all your other applications." This isn't a bad example of what has happened in iOS and Android: lots of apps pulling data from the web. And notifications are a form of push. That said, I still think the vast majority of the data I get today is pulled.