From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Thu Mar 26 16:09:41 2009 Subject: [gopher] Re: An alternate gopher-driven universe? But beyond markup languages, see the key to doing extraordinary things is to keep things simple, when our home machines are as powerful as HAL (not the gopher server the computer from space odyssey :P) And we are actually able to talk to our computers and say something like hey computer send an email to my friend xyz reminding them of the fishing trip this weekend, and then the computer does it without any more intervention. let's say you said something like Computer go purchase ebook abc and begin to recite it to me, if the entire interwebz was basically text based semi-gopher servers, it would be much easier for the machine to archive and parse all the servers it could find menu systems and and text links, as apposed to trillions of images, billions of movies, quadrillions of audio files, poorly written websites that contain nothing but high level markup script that would almost impossible for it to parse without actually having the human brain to look at what the website looks like as apposed to just looking at the code. So in my opinion the simpler we can keep everything that we hold valuable in this world the easier it will be to do more amazing stuff with those items. Hey on a side note, Cam are u running an AIX server, i thought i might of seen somewhere where you were running one, i think the old IBM aix boxes had a gopher demon, and I got one on my desk i just setup and i actually found a monitor to plug up to it so I can see what's going on now as for the BNC connection in the back... well... I wonder if I can forward all tcp traffic out of the serial port :D Matt On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> wro= te: >> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D09/03/13/2039205 >> >> That is some crazy stuff... > > It does make some interesting points, though. The one I found particularl= y > noteworthy was that gopher in some respects was easier to deal with for > simply serving multimedia. > > More to the point, if WWW had died out, WWW-like features probably *would= * > have started to emerge within gopher menus. It *is* a logical extension t= o, > say, only make part of a menu item active. Eventually some sort of markup > language would have evolved, even if it wouldn't have looked much like SG= ML. > > Thanks for the link. > > -- > ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.c= om/ -- > =A0Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodga= p.com > -- This geek BRKs for 6502s. --------------------------------------------= ------ > > > Thread start (DIR) [gopher] An alternate gopher-driven universe? Thread start (DIR) [gopher] An alternate gopher-driven universe? (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: An alternate gopher-driven universe? (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: An alternate gopher-driven universe?