Wikipedia over DNS

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 ...

pcpro.co.uk - 1/2/2009

News: Donation surge saves Wikipedia

— pcpro.co.uk — Wikipedia has secured enough funding to keep running for another year, following a late surge in donations.... Although the online encyclopaedia relies on user-generated content and edits, it still requires $6m in funding to maintain the site and pay ... (more) News: Donation surge saves Wikipedia

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dgl.cx - 1/4/2009

LPW Wikipedia talk

— dgl.cx — 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, ... (more) LPW Wikipedia talk

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MAKE Magazine: hacks — ... " 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
MAKE Magazine — ... 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 Slideshow from David's presentation at the London Perl Workshop ...