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       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.
       >
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