dgl.cx - 1/4/2009
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I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted to offer this for use in various places, now the obvious way to offer it is just a web service (via REST, SOAP, etc), but that's boring and I had a cunning plan. Why not offer it over DNS - it is basically a huge ...
blog.jimmywales.com - 1/2/2009
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I advise the world to relax a notch
or two. :-) We are not considering advertising on...
Wikipedia. Visit World Wikia (travel), Campaigns Wikia (reforming politics), and Star Wars Wikia, a.k.a. Wookieepedia. For some types of communities, advertising to ...
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icommons.org - 1/2/2009
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home Wikipedia Academies Wikipedia Academies banner_500.gif img_7176.jpg logos_w_acad_03.jpg
logos_w_acad_01.png Click here to watch a short video by...
Mann Made Media , showing highlights from this event. Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, launched the ...
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GET http://js-wp.dg.cx/json/Perl {"text":"In computer programming, Perl is a
high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally...
developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, ...
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Wikipedia over DNS
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... " or books, Hack and slash, a genre of video game or a type of gameplay, Life hack, productivity techniques used by... http://a.vu/w:Hack"
Impressive, rolling out a completely distributed, cached utility on existing infrastructure, requiring no end-user software to be installed. It's a testament to versatility and genius of DNS that one of the Internet's original protocols still exists, is as essential as ever, and still has a few tricks up its old sleeves.
Wikipedia over DNS
Slideshow from David's presentation at the London Perl Workshop 2008 ...
Wikipedia over DNS
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... in the 430 byte limit.
Think about it. There's just something fundamentally cool about the world's greatest encyclopedia distributed and cached on name servers around the earth. Not that this particular hack will be used enough for that to happen, of course, but it's interesting that it's possible on existing infrastructure, without anyone having to install anything. A small glimpse of the future of universal cloud storage, all riding on the Internet's oldest protocol.
Wikipedia over DNS
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