What an intro. I love it because of the simple statements in favor of "practice before theory":
> Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online. That was httpget 0.1: a little over 100 lines of C code. Bare bones source code with almost no error checks and limited functionality.
> httpget
> When I found the source code of that initial httpget release just days after Rafael put it online, I had no idea how HTTP worked
What an intro. I love it because of the simple statements in favor of "practice before theory":
> Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online. That was httpget 0.1: a little over 100 lines of C code. Bare bones source code with almost no error checks and limited functionality.
> httpget
> When I found the source code of that initial httpget release just days after Rafael put it online, I had no idea how HTTP worked