> If the web was being made from scratch today,
This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation.
My answer is: start with a reliable system for exchanging CSV files. Add a few extensions and boom, everything’s possible.
This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation.
My answer is: start with a reliable system for exchanging CSV files. Add a few extensions and boom, everything’s possible.
The web is such a complicated mess right now that I wish we would revert to it being just a document-based format. That's why I'm interested in things like gopher. Gopher pages can look surprisingly good.
I ye olden days there were BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). It is stateful and all the heavy lifting is done server-side.
(Besides the insanity that correct parsing would need network access, it's mostly very sound).