Working notes for Summer of Protocols
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols
Protocol is twofold; it is both an apparatus that facilitates networks and a logic that governs how things are done within that apparatus.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
The internet itself has thrived because of native internet protocols that we use everyday, like http, ftp, tcp, and ssh. One of the reasons these protocols have been so successful was that they were widely adopted and not subject to change. If I build a site using http, people can use it without any centralized intermediary - we can trust that it i... See more