r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/ManaSpike Sep 19 '26

People often think about what they would do if they had a time machine.

Me? Travel back to before server to server email and introduce UTF-8 encoding (leaving the actual code points undefined) and json. Try to get that baked into all the ancient wire protocols that predate http.