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      <title>Internet Object didn’t start as a JSON replacement.</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/internet-object-didnt-start-as-a-json-replacement-1okk</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Internet Object didn’t start as a JSON replacement.&lt;br&gt;
It started with a question:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What if we stopped repeating structure and focused on data?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That idea became schema-first, compact, and GenAI-ready.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fd92fl9nfuipvjio6v69t.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fd92fl9nfuipvjio6v69t.png" alt="The Story of Internet Object" width="665" height="281"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://internetobject.org/the-story/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;👉The Story of Internet Object&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>What if your API sent values… not repeated keys?</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/what-if-your-api-sent-values-not-repeated-keys-k89</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/internetobject/what-if-your-api-sent-values-not-repeated-keys-k89</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;👉 &lt;a href="https://play.internetobject.org/employee-register" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Try the JSON → IO Playground&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F5kqw9wvs599eds3b0rum.jpg" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F5kqw9wvs599eds3b0rum.jpg" alt="Try IO" width="800" height="497"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Every extra byte becomes an extra token in AI workflows. Same data. Half the size. Internet Object.</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/every-extra-byte-becomes-an-extra-token-in-ai-workflowssame-data-half-the-size-internet-object-3he7</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://dev.to/internetobject/from-json-to-internet-object-a-lean-schema-first-data-format-part-1-19e5"&gt;IO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Every extra byte becomes an extra token in AI workflows.
This is why Internet Object matters in the GenAI era.
Same data. Half the size.

👉 https://internetobject.org
#InternetObject #AI #JSON #DataEfficiency</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/every-extra-byte-becomes-an-extra-token-in-ai-workflows-this-is-why-internet-object-matters-in-i34</link>
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            Internet Object: 40-50% smaller than JSON with schema-first, type-safe data serialization. Reduce bandwidth costs and improve API performance today.
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      <title>JSON has no comments. IO does—because humans read APIs too</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/json-has-no-comments-io-does-because-humans-read-apis-too-49b2</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://dev.to/internetobject/the-web-didnt-need-another-syntax-it-needed-a-better-contractbeyond-json-ob"&gt;JSONvsIO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>The Web Didn’t Need Another Syntax — It Needed a Better Contract(Beyond JSON)</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/the-web-didnt-need-another-syntax-it-needed-a-better-contractbeyond-json-ob</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://dev.to/internetobject/json-is-wasting-your-bandwidth-meet-internet-object-part-1-5hbf"&gt;https://dev.to/internetobject/json-is-wasting-your-bandwidth-meet-internet-object-part-1-5hbf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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      <title>JSON Is Wasting Your Bandwidth: Meet Internet Object (Part 1)</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/json-is-wasting-your-bandwidth-meet-internet-object-part-1-5hbf</link>
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      <title>JSON Is Wasting Your Bandwidth: Meet Internet Object (Part 1)

https://dev.to/internetobject/from-json-to-internet-object-a-lean-schema-first-data-format-part-1-19e5

#api #backend #webdev #programming</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/json-is-wasting-your-bandwidth-meet-internet-object-part-1-d78</link>
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      <title>Internet Object vs JSON. Same data. Half the bytes. Double the clarity. Developers deserve better tools. #API #developer #JSON</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/internetobject/internet-object-vs-json-same-data-half-the-bytes-double-the-clarity-developers-deserve-better-5ffk</link>
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      <title>"JSON wasn’t built for the modern web. Internet Object is a compact, schema-first, human-readable format that fixes structural flaws. 

👉 https://internetobject.org
👉 https://play.internetobject.org/simple-collection

#JSON #WebDev #API #python</title>
      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
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            Internet Object: 40-50% smaller than JSON with schema-first, type-safe data serialization. Reduce bandwidth costs and improve API performance today.
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      <title>"JSON Was Slowing Me Down — So I Created Something Better" by 

👉 https://internetobject.org

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      <dc:creator>Internet Object</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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            Internet Object: 40-50% smaller than JSON with schema-first, type-safe data serialization. Reduce bandwidth costs and improve API performance today.
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