Marc Andreessen
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We didn't have the capabilities we have today, but we didn't have the language models underneath this.
But we did have this idea that human readability actually mattered a great deal.
And specifically in those days, it was not so much English language, but there was a design decision to be made between binary protocols and text protocols.
And basically every, every, every basically old school systems architect that had grown up between like the 1960s and the 1990s basically said, you know, the internet is, what do you know about the internet?
It's star for bandwidth.
You just, you have these very narrow straws.
You know, like people, when we did the work on mosaic, like people who had the internet at home had a 14 kilobit modem, right?
So you're, you're trying to like hyper optimize every bit of data that travels over the network.
And so obviously, if you're going to design a protocol like HTTP, you're going to want it to be binary, you know, highly compressed binary protocol for maximum efficiency.
And you're going to want to have it be like a single connection that persists.
And the last thing you're going to want to do is like bring up and tear down new connections.
And you definitely you're not going to want a text protocol.
And so first we said, no, we actually want to go completely the other direction.
It's obviously we only want text protocols.
By the way, same thing in HTML itself.
We want HTML to be relatively verbose.
You know, we want the tags to actually be like human readable.
We want to use the most
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Yeah, exactly.
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