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		protomyth on March 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe... If early web browsers has stuck to the spec and rejected all "bad" inputs, then web probably would have been a better place today. Sometimes the user's interests are in the future not in the now.

s3graham on March 27, 2011 [–]

Or maybe it would be as popular as gopher, and we'd all still be ftp'ing shit around.

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