Why don't they just use a data: URI?
data:text/html,%3C%68%31%3E%64%61%74%61%20%55%52%4C%20%69%73%20%6E%6F%74%20%77%65%62%20%73%63%61%6C%65%3C%2F%68%31%3E
nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
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Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#52Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#53> The internet promised freedom. Platforms delivered permission. > Private through physics. Not through policy. Goodness, LLM really convinced itself this was groundbreaking. You could describe a .html file sitting on your computer with all of the same marketing bluster. Someone has to send it to you all the same, and you might as well not rely on some random internet service to render it??
You’re absolutely right. This changes everything. The html file is the smoking gun. Let me delve into this to give the user a clearer picture.
That's not a reply – that's a retort.
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#54I did a showhn with similar idea(got a whooping 1 point and was flagged as spam which was later removed by mods), you paste your html and it encodes it into url, you can share the url without server involvement. I even added a url shortener because while technically feasible encoded url becomes long and QR code no longer works reliably. I also added annotation so you can add your comments and pass it to colleagues.
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#55> hosted nowhere > present everywhere > Still here when the internet isn't I'm afraid the OP may not have full understanding of how internet works. This is either some kind of a post irony, or some vibe code fever dream. Either way, I'm deeply confused.
If it was a simple web site without any third party dependencies, you could bookmark it.
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#56You have to fish around to figure out how to make your URL, only to find out it is some browser extension.
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#57> The internet promised freedom. Platforms delivered permission. > Private through physics. Not through policy. Goodness, LLM really convinced itself this was groundbreaking. You could describe a .html file sitting on your computer with all of the same marketing bluster. Someone has to send it to you all the same, and you might as well not rely on some random internet service to render it??
It went through the "bullshit startup founder speech" part of the LLM I guess, I wonder how bullshitjs would parse this one...
https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/
Edit: Apparently "Platforms" => "Bullshit" ;)
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#58This is cool and fun, but the sites created by this wouldn't be accessible through search engines as its not hosted anywhere. So, its just like sending your sites link through email/whatsapp or any other channel. I don't know what the real usecase for this idea could be!!!!
Digital restaurant menus!
Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#59Re: nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
#60How it works A URL fragment is the part after #. The HTTP specification prohibits browsers from sending fragments to servers. The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. No content is collected, stored, or logged. The privacy is structural. A site that was never put on a server can never be taken off one. There is no account to susp…
> The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out.
Let me tell you about a thing called JavaScript.
> A site that was never put on a server can never be taken off one.
If you post a link on HN and the content is embedded in the link itself then HN is the de facto server.