HTTP
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 31, 2022 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
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Oct 31, 2022 neutral
Evans: Internet interoperability exists only at low infrastructure layers, not applications
“And the thing about, talking about this with the internet, like the internet is completely interoperable, At the lower levels of the stack with IP and HTTP and SSL and so on. But once you're in the browser, like if you're building Amazon, you don't need to wor…”
Apr 16, 2023 neutral
Evans: Crypto resembles early 1990s internet before foundational protocols existed
“Whereas it seems to me the kind of creative energy around crypto was sort of, like, it was more like the creative energy of the internet in, like, the late eighties and early nineties.
In that there was no HTTP.
There was no SSL.
There was no SMTP.
Yes, there …”