Protocol Compatibility & Simulation
Documenting, parsing, and emulating the communication standards that structured the early web. From pre-HTTP to modern archival formats.
The original web protocol. Single line GET request, no headers, no methods. Returned only HTML text.
Introduced headers, status codes, and content-type negotiation. The foundation of early commercial web traffic.
File Transfer Protocol. Dominated software distribution and mirror sites before web hosting matured.
Hierarchical menu-based protocol. Pre-dated the web as the primary way to browse structured internet content.
Wide Area Information Server. Enabled database searching across distributed nodes before modern search engines.
Internet Relay Chat. Channel-based messaging that powered early developer communities and open-source coordination.
Web ARChive format. Standardized packaging of HTTP requests/responses, headers, and payloads for long-term preservation.
Protocol enabling time-travel access to archived web pages via standard HTTP headers and gateway discovery.
Parser & Emulator Compatibility
| Protocol | Header Parsing | Emulation | WARC Export | Modern Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP/0.9 | Partial* | ● | ● | ○ |
| HTTP/1.0 | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| FTP | ● | ● | ~ | ● |
| Gopher | ● | ● | ● | ○ |
| WAIS | ● | ~ | ● | ○ |
| IRC | ● | ● | ○ | ● |
| WARC | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Memento | ● | ● | ● | ● |
*HTTP/0.9 lacks headers; parser infers structure from payload. ● Full Support ○ Unsupported ~ Experimental