[VectorLock]

I've interacted with IRC servers via telnet a ton of times. But overall I think that era of protocol design is unfortunately long passed (looking at you SMTP)

[disposekinetics]

My dream is we move away from overly complex layers on top of HTTP and move to open simple protocols.

[VectorLock]

I miss simpler, human readable, conversational APIs like the IRC protocol.

[networkimprov]

Not yet! See TMTP from the "mnm" project (my work).