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both agree and not.. The internet was pretty closed when DARPA owned it and so TCP was proprietary. Fortunately it became ubiquitous, was written up in an RFC
by gord 17y ago
both agree and not..
The internet was pretty closed when DARPA owned it and so TCP was proprietary. Fortunately it became ubiquitous, was written up in an RFC and we can all inter-operate now.
Calling it a 'protocol' is useful.
- davepeck 17y agoRelated: the Birds of a FETHR slide deck and audio. http://brdfdr.com/pres/ http://brdfdr.com/pres/ A case for distributed microblogging, and a protocol to match.
- dagw 17y agoDistributed blogging you say. Sounds like this newfangled NNTP protocol I just read about might be just the thing. Maybe I could build a startup around that
- davepeck 17y agoI think you should read it more carefully. It has nothing to do with NNTP. (Also: sarcasm of this stripe hardly contributes to quality discussion.)
- axod 17y agoTwitter as a protocol is pretty stupid. It's trivial. Also, as a messaging protocol, it sucks. 140 characters? :/ There's far better more widely used communication protocols out there, and new ones being made all the time. Difference is Twitter has a fantastic hype machine.