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g8oztoday at 3:22 PM1 replyview on HN

It's very hard to get rid of old standards.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past"


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lxgrtoday at 4:47 PM

Of course there's an incredibly long tail here, but in the big picture, "nobody except some people maintaining a few legacy systems ever need to learn to work with this protocol anymore" is practically the same thing.