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Re:A case against text protocols by swiley on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:30AM (#27539964)
>internet was mostly old Unix machines talking to each other.

Was it? By my reading there was way more weird stuff than there is today but I certainly wasn't alive back then.

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Re:A case against text protocols by gary_0 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:06PM (#27545869)
In the context of popular things like HTTP and SMTP, yes, it was mostly Unix/BSD/NeXT[0][1]. Obviously the entire history of the Internet is a different story.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#/media/File:NeX...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#...

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