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To: Frank Schuurmans <frank@bio.vu.nl>
Hi,
You may be interested in the following Email I just sent to my Internet Service
provider:-
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To: Steve Gardner <webman@powernet.co.uk>
Subject: brain.eu.org
Hi Steve,
Many thanks for setting things up.
>I have added brain.eu.org to the Powernet Name servers, I will not do the
>rest of the configuration until brain.eu.org is setup :)
> I would advise to use www.brain.eu.org as it is more expected.
I still prefer http://brain.eu.org, in fact it would also be better to drop the http:// since
that is cryptic, but I know this is not possible. The ftp problem does worry me. I will
almost certainly be providing some programs later that people can download. Will this
still be possible with http://brain.eu.org?
For example couldn't a punter use use ftp://brain.eu.org/progname.zip? Surely the ftp
prefix could be used to direct operations to the ftp server accordingly. I don't see why
you need two lots of "ftp" i.e.
ftp://ftp.brain.eu.org/progname.zip?
I have a theory, which is part of the principle of webneurons (please see my website),
that you shouldn't fragment things if you can help it. It is very common in computing
to keep adding more and more options. This can confuse. It is better to simplify down
to the very basics.
At present the Internet is fragmented - we have Email, ftp, News, WWW, LDAP,
gopher, telnet etc. Of course, the only one you really need is WWW. You may
initially disagree but think about it for a moment - we could have "Webmail" instead of
Email. Email could appear as web pages on your server. One reason this will happen
is that punters want full colour with graphics integrated with text and you can't get that
with standard Email. You need a webneuron type revolution to do all this but if/when
it happens, Email servers will be redundant
Going a little further down the line, when the telecoms people become ISP's
themselves and each "mini-phone call" is a URL request (you may pay a fixed line
rental only), then Webmail will also replace the FAX. The Internet phone should
replace the conventional one. Personal computer operating systems will probably be
based on HTML pages with suitable extensions to allow programmability, i.e
"webneurons". So Webmail will go straight to web pages on your PC without the need
of an intermediate ISP. Phone calls will use a PPP system and be in "packets". A spin
off is that everyones' PC will become a server, and therefore a publisher. The
bandwidth problem will be solved. Speed problems are always conquered, as are
storage problems.
The others like ftp, News, LDAP etc can also be disposed of by similar methods. In
fact gopher and telnet are already historic.
So this is why I want just http://brain.eu.org
Sorry for the sermon.
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