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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by rer on Sunday October 23, 2016 @09:57PM (#12776374)
Why isn't HTTP going away?
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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by inimino on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:24AM (#12777735)
Because there's a lot of it.
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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by rer on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:54AM (#12778301)
Would it go away if there was less of it?

Can you imagine ways there could be less of it?

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by inimino on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:26PM (#12780274)
If there was something dramatically better for every use case (which is not IPFS) it would slowly displace HTTP in new deployments and there would still be HTTP for a very, very long time. The Web we have, in other words, isn't going anywhere.
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