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by kortex
1335 days ago
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It's not totally right, but it's not totally wrong, either, kind of like the way the dimensions of the space shuttle booster are directly affected by the size of a pair of Roman war horses' asses. CRLF was used verily heavily and thus got baked into a lot of different places. Namely, it conveniently sidesteps the ambiguity of "some systems use CR, others use LF" by just putting both in, and since they are whitespace, there's not much downside other than the extra byte. Beyond that, there are many other clear and obvious connections between Hypertext Transfer Protocol and teletype machines. Many early web browsers were expected to be teletype machines [0]. So while it might be a bit of a stretch, I'd say this is far from "complete bullshit". [0] - http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Proposal.html#:~:text=it%2... |
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I agree the two are similar, but the space shuttle story is also bullshit. See e.g. Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/
People are suckers for plausible-sounding and amusing stories, that one's classic bait for people's lack of critical thinking skills.
> CRLF was used verily heavily and thus got baked into a lot of different places.
Well, exactly. Which is precisely why it's bullshit to claim that HTTP was "based on teletypes". It was based on technical standards at the time, that originally derived from teletypes, but there was no consideration of teletypes in the development of HTTP that I'm aware of:
> Many early web browsers were expected to be teletype machines [0].
Could you quote a relevant part of your reference? Because I don't see it. Perhaps you're confusing "dumb terminal" with "teletype"? Or confusing the Unix concept of tty, a teletype abstraction, with the electromechanical device known as a teletype - the "remote typewriters" mentioned in the original comment?
By the time that WWW spec was written in 1990, teletypes were decades out of date and not commonly used at all. PCs had existed for over a decade, and video display terminals for mainframes and minicomputers had been around for nearly three decades. No-one was using actual teletypes any more.
> So while it might be a bit of a stretch, I'd say this is far from "complete bullshit".
This conclusion would work if any of your claims had survived scrutiny.