▲ 221 ▼ Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev 267 comments fedilink hide all child comments There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication. The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc. I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.
[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago (4 children) What's wrong with Beeper? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) Nothing objectively, it just sounds so stupid to me that I have an irrational aversion lmao permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) (This is not an insult, I just had a realization that I think might affect you)-- do you know what the name comes from? Years ago there was a thing called a beeper before everyone had cell phones. It was a one way paging system-- you'd give your friends your beeper number, they'd call it, type in their phone number, and their number (or whatever they dialed in) would appear on your beeper. You'd then use a landline phone to call them back (early versions of the system had no text or reply capability, only numbers and only one-way). I always thought it was a cool name. But thinking about it I realize someone less than maybe 25-30 years old might literally have never encountered such a device. Much like a 5.25" floppy disk or rotary dial phone, they went out of style years ago and a young person might never have encountered one. Curious if that's you? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) You know, I probably should have looked into this... yeah, this is me lol. I've seen floppies and we had an old rotary phone, but I've never heard of a beeper. It still sounds weird but at least there's a reason. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 point 2 years ago It's all good. Like I said, no insult at all. There's no reason why you would ever have encountered a beeper, it's one of those things that once SMS came around everybody just collectively decided to move on from. Unlike floppies or rotary phones there wasn't some continued use for it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) Nothing objectively, it just sounds so stupid to me that I have an irrational aversion lmao permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) (This is not an insult, I just had a realization that I think might affect you)-- do you know what the name comes from? Years ago there was a thing called a beeper before everyone had cell phones. It was a one way paging system-- you'd give your friends your beeper number, they'd call it, type in their phone number, and their number (or whatever they dialed in) would appear on your beeper. You'd then use a landline phone to call them back (early versions of the system had no text or reply capability, only numbers and only one-way). I always thought it was a cool name. But thinking about it I realize someone less than maybe 25-30 years old might literally have never encountered such a device. Much like a 5.25" floppy disk or rotary dial phone, they went out of style years ago and a young person might never have encountered one. Curious if that's you? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) You know, I probably should have looked into this... yeah, this is me lol. I've seen floppies and we had an old rotary phone, but I've never heard of a beeper. It still sounds weird but at least there's a reason. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 point 2 years ago It's all good. Like I said, no insult at all. There's no reason why you would ever have encountered a beeper, it's one of those things that once SMS came around everybody just collectively decided to move on from. Unlike floppies or rotary phones there wasn't some continued use for it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) (This is not an insult, I just had a realization that I think might affect you)-- do you know what the name comes from? Years ago there was a thing called a beeper before everyone had cell phones. It was a one way paging system-- you'd give your friends your beeper number, they'd call it, type in their phone number, and their number (or whatever they dialed in) would appear on your beeper. You'd then use a landline phone to call them back (early versions of the system had no text or reply capability, only numbers and only one-way). I always thought it was a cool name. But thinking about it I realize someone less than maybe 25-30 years old might literally have never encountered such a device. Much like a 5.25" floppy disk or rotary dial phone, they went out of style years ago and a young person might never have encountered one. Curious if that's you? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) You know, I probably should have looked into this... yeah, this is me lol. I've seen floppies and we had an old rotary phone, but I've never heard of a beeper. It still sounds weird but at least there's a reason. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 point 2 years ago It's all good. Like I said, no insult at all. There's no reason why you would ever have encountered a beeper, it's one of those things that once SMS came around everybody just collectively decided to move on from. Unlike floppies or rotary phones there wasn't some continued use for it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) You know, I probably should have looked into this... yeah, this is me lol. I've seen floppies and we had an old rotary phone, but I've never heard of a beeper. It still sounds weird but at least there's a reason. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 point 2 years ago It's all good. Like I said, no insult at all. There's no reason why you would ever have encountered a beeper, it's one of those things that once SMS came around everybody just collectively decided to move on from. Unlike floppies or rotary phones there wasn't some continued use for it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 point 2 years ago It's all good. Like I said, no insult at all. There's no reason why you would ever have encountered a beeper, it's one of those things that once SMS came around everybody just collectively decided to move on from. Unlike floppies or rotary phones there wasn't some continued use for it. permalink fedilink source parent