starting a working group to figure out what the internet infrastructure would look like today if IPX/SPX had won instead of TCP/IP.

see also: alternate universe where commercial winsocks continued to be relevant and now every podcast and youtube channel is advertising NordWinsock

@Canageek @gsuberland think of it as there being multiple competing TCP/IP stacks on the market for Windows. Maybe you get one from your ISP, or maybe you buy NordWinsock which includes Privacy Protection Plus, or GamerSock with proprietary latency reduction technology.

@jon @gsuberland ahhh, thank you

@Canageek @jon yeah back in the ye olden days you didn't necessarily have a fully featured network stack on your machine. winsock existed as a component but was early days. Trumpet Winsock was an early commercial replacement that claimed more features and better performance.