[HN Gopher] Gopher: Underground Technology (2004)
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Gopher: Underground Technology (2004)
Author : ecliptik
Score : 51 points
Date : 2022-06-24 05:15 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dwheeler wrote:
| As Alberti said, "licensing killed gopher":
| https://mncomputinghistory.com/gopher-protocol/
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| The WWW was given for free, gopher tried to tax the world after
| being given away in a what looked like a bait-and-switch. Once
| the tax attempt happened, gopher never had a chance, it was
| simply unsafe to use. And really, the WWW was better anyway - it
| was far more flexible.
| account-5 wrote:
| And images, the WWW supported images, gopher was about text. In
| my head porn helped kill gopher.
| spicybright wrote:
| Gohper absolutely supports images. Basic browsers let you
| click a link to view it. More modern ones would inline the
| images.
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| Gopher is different from the WWW as it's expected your
| browser to render content in a way you want as opposed to a
| standard of how each page should look.
| every wrote:
| I used gopher for a number of years, mostly as a hobby. Here is a
| proxy server if you want to look around:
| https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw
| Sembiance wrote:
| I made solitaire for gopher:
| https://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2019/06/14/solitaire-over-goph...
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| Why? Dunno. It was a fun weekend project.
| classichasclass wrote:
| If you want to know where Port-A-Goph went:
|
| http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/05/gopher-on-palm-pilot-and-...
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