I agree most of the issue is on the "web" and not the physical infrastructure, although there is an internet outside the "world wide web" too: https://yesterweb.org/zine/issue-05/08/

"The internet and the web are not one and the same. The web is simply one protocol of the internet. You see the "https://" at the beginning of the url bar? That's the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or as it's more commonly known, The World Wide Web."

I sometimes mention the two because multiple protocols are part of the Transport layer. But then again, relying on one too much may be part of the problem, hence the emphasis on examining all the layers and protocols, like UDP.

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protocolture an hour ago | parent [-]

But you don't really examine the other layers, just talk about them. You aren't proposing alternatives.

Honestly if you cut through everything that's brought up and left dangling, whats left is Website and App efficiency, and a very sizable percentage of apps are just wrapped websites.

I just did a ctrl+f on the page and couldn't find a reference to UDP.

	▲	initramfs an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's because I wrote about QUIC & UDP in my previous post yesterday. https://inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/06/5-things-to-lighten-d... https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-road-to-quic/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC#Client_support https://nordvpn.com/blog/what-is-quic-protocol/ https://www.fastvue.co/fastvue/blog/googles-quic-protocols-s... My writing is tangential as it is, so I try to keep the layers separate in different analyses. Java ME, Azul & OS (Symbian): https://inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/06/how-about-new-java-ba... Edit: One thing I didn't include in the article was file sharing protocols, because of security vulunerabilities. I recall IPFS had some known issues, but others have tried to use similar protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_synchroniza... There are at least two that use QUIC, such as Kubo/IPFS and Syncthing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncthing Do they work faster than the regular web? Well, torrents can download faster. But I do not know how much the web depends on it or needs it. I know Microsoft and Steam servers allow downloading games and updates from other PCs, including ones outside a local network. Why they offer it (for Windows system files), is beyond me. Maybe some areas (public networks) share an unsecure wifi network more often and do not own a separate router for trusted internet access. I guess the files are encrypted enough that there is a checksum that can determine if the files are not tampered?