HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web
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Like ATOM did?
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> IPFS is actually more similar to a single bittorrent swarm exchanging git objects. IPFS could become a new major subsystem of the internet. If built right, it could complement or replace HTTP. coulda, woulda, shoulda. Marc
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The Keyboard on the page you linked to has CERN printed on it. Illuminati Confirmed! :-P IPFS does sound cool though. And HTTP is a little boring these days...
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Don't worry they will make sure the new protocol contains plenty of backdoors.
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This article seems to be more hype than well researched computer science. Many of the criticisms of HTTP are not related to HTTP at all. If a company goes out of business and their web site gets shut down leaving a link to a dead site, how is that an issue with HTTP?
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This article seems to be more hype than well researched computer science. Many of the criticisms of HTTP are not related to HTTP at all. If a company goes out of business and their web site gets shut down leaving a link to a dead site, how is that an issue with HTTP?
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
Dominic Burford wrote:
..how is that an issue with HTTP?
My cat went missing the other day and it was all HTTP's fault. Luckily IPFS must have found him and brought him back again the following day.. Cue mass hysteria.. :laugh:
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Dominic Burford wrote:
..how is that an issue with HTTP?
My cat went missing the other day and it was all HTTP's fault. Luckily IPFS must have found him and brought him back again the following day.. Cue mass hysteria.. :laugh:
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
Well in that case I take it all back. IPFS is definitely the way forward :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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Well in that case I take it all back. IPFS is definitely the way forward :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter