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initramfslast Monday at 11:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

I agree most of the issue is on the "web" and not the physical infrastructure, although there is an internet outside the "world wide web" too: https://yesterweb.org/zine/issue-05/08/

"The internet and the web are not one and the same. The web is simply one protocol of the internet. You see the "https://" at the beginning of the url bar? That's the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or as it's more commonly known, The World Wide Web."

I sometimes mention the two because multiple protocols are part of the Transport layer. But then again, relying on one too much may be part of the problem, hence the emphasis on examining all the layers and protocols, like UDP.


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protocolturelast Tuesday at 12:06 AM

But you don't really examine the other layers, just talk about them. You aren't proposing alternatives.

Honestly if you cut through everything that's brought up and left dangling, whats left is Website and App efficiency, and a very sizable percentage of apps are just wrapped websites.

I just did a ctrl+f on the page and couldn't find a reference to UDP.

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trumpdonglast Tuesday at 11:57 AM

HTTP isn't the WWW. Back when browsers supported FTP and Gopher, you could deliver the exact same HTML, for the exact same experience, over either protocol.