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Anything that stems from _protocol_, to me, is astounding.

Yes, the internet is predictable in a sort of “yeah I think people will eventually all want to be able to communicate with each other easily.”

But if I said to Benjamin Franklin — the ambassador to France during the American revolution — that the internet only works because every country in the world agreed to do internet the same way, he would’ve said “fuck you, no way”



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