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They are not analogous. IRC is a chat protocol with semantics suitable for a chat protocol. HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you want to send. It doesn't have any significant semantic implications for sites like Twitter.


> HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you want to send.

So what? They're analogous not identical. The distinction you point out isn't relevant to the point of the analogy.

You wrote:

> switching to another network is literally as simple as pointing the client to a different domain name.

irc and http are the same in this respect, thus they are analogous.




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