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Yes, which presumably would have actually been tested by someone before it was uploaded.
Neither you nor the sibling commentator can be serious.
The Ricochet network. A packet mesh network providing ISDN speeds in the dialup era, wirelessly. They burned through $5B of 1999 dollars, building out a network in 23 cities, and had effectively zero customers. Finally shut down in 2001. All their marketing was focused on "mobile professionals", whoever those were, while ignoring home users who were clamoring for faster internet where other ISPs dragged their feet. T…
I loved my Ricochet modems so damn much. Sitting in a coffeeshop in Palo Alto with an Apple Powerbook and a second generation Ricochet modem rocking web browsing and ssh sessions at 56k when wifi was unknown to the general public. I still have a couple in a box somewhere and I am tempted to see if I can get them into star mode.
But simple point-to-point dialup (using my XP box as a RAS/DUN server) served me well back in the day, even after the network went down, because I put my home node as high up as I could, and it would get me roughly a half-mile radius around the house. Loooong before 802.11ah! It was fast enough for VNC.
WebOS. Javascript/HTML based smartphone / app interface.
I really liked Google Circles, a feature of Google+ social media. It allowed you to target content to specific groups of users. You could have a "family" circle or a "work" circle and not have to worry about cross posting something accidentally. It was a small thing but it made it really easy to manage your posts.
Years later they briefly added Circles to Twitter and I thought that was great, not as useful as G+ Circles (since you could only have a single "private" circle to share to) but I very much used it and my mutuals as well... just to have Musk remove the only useful feature they had in years.
A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…
Google G Suite offered a free option after initially saying it was ending. just logged into my Workspace account: https://ibb.co/99jBLJnD still have many domains on there, all with gmail
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But the problem here is that our nice programmer-brained mental model does not match the actual requirements of text. Unless you know about tree structures, it doesn’t make sense to the average person why you would have to stop and then restart a span of formatting options just because an unrelated attribute changed. And that’s why XHTML failed - HTML is human-writable .
That’s not what the H stands for though… but I get what you’re saying. Because they opened in order, closing in same defined order should be allowed and thus we have all that peeking code to check to see if the next tag is that so we don’t error out and now we no longer conform to XHTML. Because non-engineers are writing HTML. It’s like putting the tires on before the brakes, but brakes after, and expecting it to wor…
Tree structures just aren’t very user-friendly representations of text, and it’s supposed to be “hypertext” after all. :-)
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Neither you nor the sibling commentator can be serious.
Hey, guess what else is processed at runtime: all of the dynamically typed programming languages that run half of the internet. I wonder how they can still get reliability despite that?
2. That is literally besides the point we're arguing here.
At this point i have no interest in this "discussion".
Adieu.