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I seem to remember suggesting jobs.txt as a listing for a company’s open positions. Someone even made a site promoting the idea.

What I mean to say is that the concept of a domain is much deeper than html, and we use it so shallowly. The web is distributed and simple if we want it back.

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That's interesting. I love the idea of sites exposing various types of data through plain text files with well-known names. Kind of like (a vastly simplified) RSS feed, but for whatever. Or something vaguely like Gopher sites, back in the day.

But then, the company would want to brand it, and the marketing team would want to track views, and the sales team would want some kind of call to action, and the product managers would want to make it cross platform and internationalized. And suddenly we're back at something that looks like HTML. sigh

Can you expand more on this? What do you mean by “much deeper than html”?

He means if you have a domain you can pretty much serve whatever you want off of it.

Maybe html was wrong phrase. I mean the distributed nature as typified by everyone having their own domain - with attached storage. This was the default back in the dial up days (side thought is that Apple could bring that back - iCloud is nice as storage and all but how much will it take to go from iCloud to paulsdomain.com/photojournal - that’s almost a Facebook killer and at some point is much much easier to distribute)

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