Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Garbage nsec garbagensec@NostrAddress.com 9 months ago

If you look at the web it started with a protocol (HTTP) and a single dominant client, a browser called "WorldWideWeb", which they renamed Nexus in 1994 to avoid confusion with the broader concept of the World Wide Web. So the first "WorldWideWeb" was basically Chrome. Other clients then appeared and evolved, making HTTP more robust (Line Mode, Erwise, Viola, Mosaic...) This idea that HTTP appeared and then the web just sort of "happened" on top of it is widespread but totally false. It was a client model from the start.

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Luke thatdudeluke@lifeinmi.com 9 months ago

I guess I didn’t make that clear, Nostr is a parallel universe to http or the internet as people know it and the creator of the protocol seems like he is comparing it to a social media client

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Melvin Carvalho _@melvincarvalho.com 9 months ago

WorldWideWeb was the first browser/editor from 1990. It's still going, and I have a call with it's creator later today, to help finish it. Mosaic came after and is the father of firefox, chrome, netscape. The main thing done by the VCs was to add multi media and remove the editing facitlity. The web was supposed to be editable by its users. VCs shifted that to the servers, which they owned. HTTP and the web browser were released together. It was actually designed to transmit notes and other stuff. The first version didnt have HTTP PUT, but that was added later, with a scaling architecture. Which is why it took off.