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Basically requiring implementations to work to a proto-spec kind of defeats the purpose of having standards.

Charlemagne also used monks and priests in something that looks like a proto-civil service role...

Thrift and Cap'n Proto are definitely more compact and as fast, or faster, to parse.

I should know better than argue about definitions, but can't help myself:) How is proto-fascism different from conservatism?

With 3mb source files if you put it all in one proto file.

Facebook was sort of the proto-unicorn, and it spawned imitators.

I've been involved in a proto co-op and know about two others.

As someone who just set up IPv6 tunnels to both home and the office, I had no issues with 6in4 (proto-41) traffic with both ISPs I used.

I believe it is known that some old reverse-proxies used this header before a standard solution emerged (X-forwarded-proto), Wordpress probably had to deal with this surprising behavior at some point.

In 1936 linguist Edward Sapir showed how the arrival of the Navajo people in the new arid climate among the corn agriculturalists of the Pueblo area was reflected in their language by tracing the changing meanings of words from proto-Athabaskan to Navaho.

A language is defined in terms of how it is used, but a language is not supposed to be used in the way it was defined, if so, we'd still be speaking proto-indo-european, or maybe we'd never be able to speak, as there wouldn't exist any grammar before a language existed.

If your plan to get rid of the trolls is to feed them by bringing their trolling out of the dark confines of message boards and trying to shame them in public, congratulations, you've fed the trolls, and inspired other proto-trolls (goblins, kobalds, I need a D&D person here...) to snicker in their caverns and sling their troll arrows at you.

For it's time it was kind of the proto "news feed" for my group of friends.

Likewise the proto-Athabaskan word ɫ-yáxs "snow lies on the ground" in Navaho became sàs "corn lies on the ground".

So maybe one could call it "proto-fascism", although I'd generally try to avoid this particular f-word, as it does tend to Godwin discussions.

It's frustrating when someone decides "damn the system" in the name of a proto pre-design-standards aesthetic instead of just making sure standard zooms leave their content at 12-14 words per line.

Sumerian/Babylonian) religion influenced Judaism and Islam, or how Proto-Indo-European religion influenced northern European, Hindu and near-eastern religions.

In practice, with X-Forwarded-Proto, they don't, unless they can authenticate the downstream hop.

Proto-fascism is probably the best term.