[lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble

[// ravi]

On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:54 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>  
wrote:
> Ravi writes:
>
>>> My problem with terms like "real time web" is that they
>>> are marketing jargon or denote opinion trends and don't
>>> really demarcate anything
>
> But you have to admit, it's much better than the old batch-mode-web  
> we used to have.  I still have some of those punch cards.

Yeah man do you remember HTTP 1.0 when you sent in a request via RS232  
escape sequences and then waited for your upstream UUCP guy to batch  
down you web pages every alternate day? That used to suck! And then  
Marc Andreesen and Sir Berners-Lee and Ashton Kutcher wrote up  
RFC54757 -- "real time extensions to TCP keep-alives to make HTTP less  
sucky" ... Or was it my old acquaintance Schulzrinne with RTP... All I  
know is I can't go back to living batch mode... I WON'T!!!

     -- ravi

Yes that's right; I name-dropped Henning. How sad is that? ;-) Should  
I have gone with Al Aho?