Go and read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031529 . The developer xyrself is in the comments talking about the choices that were made and the alternatives that were considered.
I noticed the other day that the colour picker in Microsoft Termimal now gives the Web Colour names as one moves the mouse pointer around. I don't know how long it has been doing that without my noticing. I don't change colours all of that often. (-:
The problem is that the nomenclature and conventions differed, and this many years later people tend to conflate them.
BBS networks like ILink had tearlines, optional taglines, and mandatory origin lines. FidoNet had tearlines and origin lines because it shared roots and sometimes nodes with the BBS networks; so they were there for compatibility. Usenet mainly had signatures, with all of its equivalents to the other stuff in headers.
Interestingly enough, the weird re-boosting to get more views thing that Hacker News sometimes does is making it seem like I said all of that 5 hours ago.
One can hope that someone will give the ISPs in my country a metaphorical hefty kick up the arse, especially as some of the more niche ones have been happily providing IPv6, and business customers can get IPv6, and of course other countries are happily embracing IPv6. So I wouldn't say never.
But the clear evidence is that past promises of it arriving at those major ISPs are very hollow indeed.
It's not the same with DNSSEC in the U.K., though. Many WWW hosting services (claim to) support that right now. And if anything, rather than there being years-old ineffective petition sites clamouring for IPv6 to be turned on, it is, even in 2025, the received wisdom to look to turning DNSSEC off in order to fix problems.
One has to roll one's eyes at how many times the-corporation-disables-the-thread-where-customers-repeatedly-ask-for-simple-moderen-stuff-for-10-years is the answer. It was the answer for Google Chrome not getting SRV lookup support. Although that was a mere 5 years.
A version of (say) FreeDOS that was layered on top of the EFI API instead of PC98 firmware interrupts would be quite interesting. That would be a major architectural change to most of the programs, of course. But one would have provided the EFI Shell with essentially a complete suite of MS-DOS (albeit not PC-DOS or DR-DOS) commands. That could probably be quite easily ported to (say) ARM whereas the original still has x86isms.
I did see that and for people that need that specific functionality it seemed like a good solution.
My goal was more "What if DOS hadn't ended and but kept up support for modern hardware" along with emulation of common things in DOS gaming. So for example you would be able to set up a PIV that mapped certain resources directly or emulated them depending on the need.
Could I use DOSBox for this... yes, but this is a "why not" sort of thing. I figured it would be a good excuse to learn OS dev. But life has kept me busy for now.
As someone with a WWW site hit by Brexit where half the country voted to stop me having my domain name (and some other things) I read this with interest to consider how badly it would be caught out on the sort of false positive where a WWW site owner has to change ASes, change HTTP servers, set up redirects and meta information for the time left before eu. becomes unavailable, and even change DNS servers let alone a number of resource records. A lot of those seem to be things that will add up in this model. As would the fact that my prior domain name is today parked. In Canada!
Not the first sudden and unwelcome discontinuity, either.
Google came close to thinking that I was dead, and turned out when I recently checked to be still looking for me under eu., years after the fact.
And with a broader view, this sort of stuff happens to the world, and there are enough people in the same boat that it is worth thinking of false positives when major upheavals occur. They can range from ISPs just up and deciding to close up shop with zero notice (which also happened to me) to international geopolitical upheavals. Who knows! If Brexit happened, it is conceivable that one day, the island of Niue might eventually prevail and then decide overnight that non-Niue citizens may not own a nu. domain. (-:
I wonder how many times Marginalia would have declared me dead, by now. (-:
I think some degree of false positives is inevitable with this type of feature, but it can still provide use even if it's not perfect. Websites with flakey profiles that keep changing emit a signal of their own.
On the contrary, there are uses of "boffins" for "tech" articles in U.K. tabloids such as The Sun, The Daily Star, and The Daily Mirror within the past 3 days alone.
It looks like the request from 2023 fell on deaf ears.
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