The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' 452
An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:5, Funny)
It's not Twitter's fault, it's the Internet's!
So let me get this straight... (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I'm fascinated by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
How to fix Twitter (Score:5, Funny)
The only thing wrong with Twitter is that it has too many users. The way to fix it is to stop using it.
Re:"Content centric"? (Score:5, Funny)
My buzzword filter prevented that term from reaching my conscious mind.
Re:"Content centric"? (Score:5, Funny)
Your unconscious mind is a hell of a typist.
Re:This coming from someone at twitter (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' (Score:4, Funny)
Don't personify the internets!
We don't want them getting the idea that they are alive.
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:5, Funny)
According to Twitter, it's Microsoft's fault.
Re:He's right about ipv4 (Score:5, Funny)
And stack some canned soup and shotguns
I've found that a simple crank-operated can opener works far better than a shotgun.
And soup? Screw the soup, stockpile beer!
Re:"Content centric"? (Score:1, Funny)
My ********* filter prevented that term from reaching my conscious mind.
Your what filter?
This is coming from the guy... (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.istwitterdown.com
I am right and the entire Industry is wrong! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:5, Funny)
"There are a lot of places where unholy cludges exist and are perpetuated because it's a lot easier to live with them than it is to try and change everything that depends on them."
You're telling me. I personally witnessed a critical point that 75% of all internet data passes through in an unnamed very large University that is powered by a goddamned lobster on a treadmill! If Pinchy ever gives up the ghost, we are all well and truly FCKed.
Re:No one can predict the future well (Score:3, Funny)
SNMP != SMTP
Thank you for playing tech acronym soup.
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:2, Funny)
No citation needed ;)
Re:No one can predict the future well (Score:5, Funny)
The internet wasn't designed to be used the way it is being used today anyway.
Incorrect - there has always been porn on the internet.
Re:X Windows?? (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, I couldn't read the rest of your post. My brain short-circuited at this line:
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:5, Funny)
This is why we need.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"Content centric"? (Score:5, Funny)
Advertisement (Score:4, Funny)
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams? ...
Leela: Of course.
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Re:posting link to unrelated penny arcade comic (Score:5, Funny)
1. You don't get modded up by asking.
My entire modding strategy revolves around searching for the phrase "I know I am going to be modded xxxx for this, but.." and then meeting their expectations.
In other news (Score:2, Funny)
The pot called the kettle black.
Re:posting link to unrelated penny arcade comic (Score:2, Funny)
Since i'm in a good mood , here you go.
Re:X Windows?? (Score:4, Funny)
Who are you to say the Twitter guy knows nothing of scaling?
Re:Electronic evolution (Score:5, Funny)
shhh, we all know evolution is a lie! It was all designed by some inventor and the tubes are in exactly the same form they were 3 years ago (any good source cites 3 years as the age of the internet and who am I to go questioning this when i find some of these "older" sites)
Re:Yea me! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe I'm just too wordy, but if I can say it in 120 characters, whatever, it's probably too banal to be shared.
Twitter is the new Haiku?
Re:Go and build your own then. (Score:4, Funny)
We've already got one, you just didn't get an invitation.
It's really nice though. Unlimited high res porn and chatrooms with actual girls in them.
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:5, Funny)
To be fair, it's a really big lobster.
Re:Electronic evolution (Score:5, Funny)
Web 1.0
NO! Dammit! I refuse to let you retroactively coin a phrase for an era in which all of the damned rabid PHP weasels had no part!
You can have your blogosphere, twitter, all those lame-ass social networking sites that do nothing for the good of mankind; but I have to draw the line when you reach into the past and blaspheme the good old days of gopher, FTP, and just reading the web page for the content and not the blinking god damned gnome game!
It was NOT web 1.0. It was an era of purity of information and good porn the likes of which will never grace your browser again!
Now, take your PHP for weasels book and get off my lawn!
Re:Electronic evolution (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Go and build your own then. (Score:3, Funny)
Doesn't sound like hte kind of place I particularly want to be in. Guess that's the advantage of invitation only nets, there can be more than one:-)
Re:"Content centric"? (Score:5, Funny)
That really is one of the great mysteries of slashdot.
As Twain said... (Score:3, Funny)
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools.
But that the lightning ain't distributed right."
Re:The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' (Score:1, Funny)
We don't want them getting the idea that they are alive.
Too late. We're here now. You should learn to accept us. It would be - better - for you that way.
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:3, Funny)
This is new revolutionary* economy* of Web2.0*. You need to understand that its synergy* with the community* that drive these content-driven* revolutions*.
More seriously, their exit strategy is to get bought out by some moronic yahoo (pun intended).
IPOs are kinda out these days, the trick is to be bought out and make turning a bunch of poor uni student subscribers into a revenue stream someone elses problem.
* Bullshit.
Re:*Brain Asplodes* (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"Content centric"? (Score:4, Funny)
How did you get past the