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1. khaledh ◴[] No.43715137[source]
Very nice. The design reminds me of a website that I forgot to bookmark a long while ago, it was about explaining network protocols at the wire level, and it had some of the most amazing visuals that I ever saw. It's a shame that I forgot what it was, and googling doesn't help. If anyone knows what I'm talking about please share the link.
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2. virogenesis ◴[] No.43715148[source]
Let us know if you find that site asking for my kid :)
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3. promiseofbeans ◴[] No.43715557[source]
Looks like it might have been VisualLand.net, which isn't around anymore. Looking at the archive of the site (https://web.archive.org/web/20130811073141/http%3A//www.visu...), most of their animations / diagrams were Flash, so no longer run, and don't seem to work with archive.org's emulator either.
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4. khaledh ◴[] No.43716013{3}[source]
No, that's not it unfortunately. It was a single page with a style of diagrams that shows a high-level format of something, with arrows to a zoomed-in version that details the structure of the fields. I remember its colour scheme being dominated by light blue and green, IIRC.
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5. gecko6 ◴[] No.43718682{4}[source]
Could this be it? TLS 1.3 connection, with every field in the packets labelled: https://tls13.xargs.org
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6. truetraveller ◴[] No.43718753[source]
Where the visuals interactive or static?
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7. khaledh ◴[] No.43719720{5}[source]
No, not that one either. The page was static and full of high quality images dissecting the format structures.
8. khaledh ◴[] No.43719723[source]
Static.