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Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share

From Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share
Date 2016-01-28 12:59 +0000
Organization terraraq NNTP server
Message-ID <8737thzwon.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> (permalink)
References <TtWQ90rjibrnbgu6xEbgW+Pd@dont-email.me> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1601251052160.9361@darkstar.example.org> <dgu920Fsu7nU2@mid.individual.net> <878u3ayobl.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> <slrnnak3vu.165.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net>

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Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> writes:
> On 2016-01-28, Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

>>> Gopherspace is still out there, for those who care to look, and it
>>> offers simplicity and organization, a total lack of banner ads,
>>> stats scripts, javascript madness, and 3rd party cookies.
>>
>> What content does Gopherspace contain?  Simplicity and organization
>> (and a lack of certain pathologies) are irrelevant unless it has
>> things I need or want to read in it.
>
> <http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/> for an HTTP proxy to gopherspace,
> if you haven't got a real gopher client.  (Lynx can handle gopher URLs
> such as <gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/>).

I didn’t ask “how do I get at it”, I asked why I would bother in the
first place.

-- 
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-25 06:00 +0000
  Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-25 10:55 -0500
    Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-28 10:32 +0000
      Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-01-28 10:45 +0000
        Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-28 13:41 +0200
        Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-01-28 12:56 +0000
          Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-01-28 12:59 +0000
            Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-28 22:02 +0300
              Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-01-28 19:31 +0000
              Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-28 20:41 +0000
                Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-30 11:00 +0300
                Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-30 11:12 -0500
          Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-01-28 19:26 +0000
        Re: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-28 11:58 -0500

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