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Call me silly but if you don't need a host then why do you need a link? That does this do that .html can't?

Sharing a snippet of text is much easier than sharing a file.

Telling a normal person to click that link (or, go to decoder.com and paste this text into there, for a more distributed version) is much easier than getting them to view the HTML.

But why not just share the raw text then? In a situation where you would need to distribute web pages without a host, presumably to share vital information, couldn't you just share the raw text via the same medium you use to send the link?

I still think this is really interesting though.

Because you can distribute web forms that post data to locations for aggregation of standardized data. Useful for organizing strikes and other civil disobedience.

Think about the tools a modern political campaign uses, it would be somewhat similar.

If you need to have a host receiving that data, why not serve the page from that host?

Good point, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. Perhaps the data from the form could get turned into an email or sms draft instead of an HTTP action.

Thx. Makes sense.

But aren't there any other encoding standards? Perhaps also with encryption?

I'm not knocking this url idea. Simply what-if'ing other possibilities.

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