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Old Protocol Could Save Massive Bandwidth

GFD writes: "The EETimes has a story about a relavtively old protocol for structured information call ASN.1 could be used to compress a 200 byte XML document to 2 bytes and few bits. I wonder if the same could be done with XHTML or even regular HTML."

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  1. Hmm, I knew it would come back.... by digitalamish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just like bellbottoms or skinny ties. I knew all those token ring cards would come back in style.

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  2. Better than that... by jmv · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I can do much better with "delete" and "undelete". DOS rules! It had filesystem compression (format/unformat) long before the others.

  3. Re:Postum primus? by TheAwfulTruth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No it's true! And Tesla invented a way to create unlimited energy forever! So, Actually. Why is it that we can't moderate the articles themselves? I mean this really deserves a 0. The mac rant article earlier deserved a -1. It's like the people posting either don;t acutally read the source articles themselves or put maybe 2 seconds of thought into them. "News for Nerds" deserves a little more peer review before being blasted out like a bad onion fart. Jeeze...

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