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Old Protocol Could Save Massive Bandwidth

Posted by Hemos on from the reduce-reuse-recycle dept.

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. And the two bytes are... by hayz · · Score: 0, Troll

    $34 $32

    (Actually, it's possible to compress *much* more information into these two bytes.)