“When you go to tiny little office, it loads a bunch of code from tiny little office. Then in your browser, it looks at that data, doesn't send it to the server.”

Paul Ford · The Vergecast · Files are over. All you need are URLs

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built Tiny Little Office so that the entire document is encoded in the URL and the data after the pound sign never goes to a server

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