As you mention Lafarge. I think his fallacy and other theorists of its time and school of thinking was mankinds natural sense of enough os enough.
Lafarge wont come true with the quite large inequality of wealth and mankinds appetite for disteactions and general fear of silence and deep contemplation.
In the case of Europe much of generated wealth is wandering abroud (China: goods, US: digital services) so wealth doesn't get enough redistributed but is created somewhere else.
The dispora means little though, the people in the country count as they live 365 days there without the convenient ability to comment from a distance and they are ones who would have to die for a turnover.
There are similar scenes in all Iranian cities. Literally the first morning video we could see Saturday morning before the internet shutdown, were ladies on their balcony jumping of joy that they had struck Khamenei's neighbourhood.
Space is cold but has little mass. Either heat can radiated or transfered. To transfer heat, mass which easily absorbs heat is required. The moon might be suitable for that.
Sixel support unfortunately came to terminals in 01988, as that page explains. I saw it myself in 01992. Sending uncompressed color raster data over a 9600-baud serial link again every time you wanted to look at it was a terrible idea, made worse by the stupid Sixel encoding inflating it by an additional 33%.
Today, when we're sending it to terminal emulators running on teraflops supercomputers over gigabit-per-second links, it's only a waste of CPU and software complexity instead of user time and precious bandwidth. But it's still a waste.
Why couldn't we have FTP and Gopher support in web browsers instead?
> I don't think they needed improving in order to continue accessing the existing sites that still used them
The browser support would have need continous security fixes and rewrites unfortunately, the protocol specs and the code was written in the day and age of a much less adversarial internet. It's much safer to handle those sort of protocols with a HTTPS proxy on the front these days. There's dedicated gopher and ftp clients still out there, IMHO browsers are too big and bloated as they are they need more stuff taken out of them, not more added without taking anything away, particularly stuff thats old and insecure and not used much anymore.
And yes, I'm also here for the retro factor :-) my pet project is Z80/6502 emulation in UnrealEngine with VT100 and VGA support and running BBS's in space.
So I'm all over stuff about old ANSI, PETSCII and anything even tangentially 8x8 character set related:
I think it had been many years since the FTP code had needed a security fix, and at least a year or two for the Gopher code.
The entire original point of the WWW project was, approximately, providing a better user interface for accessing files on FTP servers. So to me it seems perverse that the current stewards of the Web have broken that.
Lafarge wont come true with the quite large inequality of wealth and mankinds appetite for disteactions and general fear of silence and deep contemplation.
In the case of Europe much of generated wealth is wandering abroud (China: goods, US: digital services) so wealth doesn't get enough redistributed but is created somewhere else.
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