Comment by Daub
4 days ago
I belive that an early beowser, possibly Mosaic, had an edit button. Think of that and the fundamental change of internet philosophy it implies!
4 days ago
I belive that an early beowser, possibly Mosaic, had an edit button. Think of that and the fundamental change of internet philosophy it implies!
The original idea behind a protocol which did updates as much as reads was later realised as Wikipedia and similar sites.
Hence GET / POST / PUT. The WWW was designed to edit documents directly.
One early tool in this space was Navipress (which AOL bought out and made into AOLpress) which is notable for having been used by a certain Tim Berners-Lee to write a book:
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821987.Weaving_the_Web
Just yesterday, this blew my mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096599
Thanks for reminding me of this. Used it once or twice to prank co workers.
Yeah, and the original HTTP had PUT and DELETE methods.