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robbrit on Jan 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Network protocols for anyone who knows a programmi...

> HTTP/2 has header compression because of the RAM limitations of networking devices in the late 1970s.

And this is why engineering is interesting. Your design choices can have lots of unintended side effects.

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