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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 19:31 +0000
Organization terraraq NNTP server
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References (2 earlier) <dgu920Fsu7nU2@mid.individual.net> <878u3ayobl.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> <slrnnak3vu.165.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net> <8737thzwon.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> <dgv6tjF67v7U1@mid.individual.net>

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RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> writes:
> Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> Wrote in message:
>> I didn’t ask “how do I get at it”, I asked why I would bother in the
>> first place.
>
> And you got your answer: go have a look around.

That’s not an answer to the question I actually asked.

> It's all personal, zero corporate, so it's got lots of whatever
> individual users care to post and provide.  Or check out gopherpedia,
> a gopher interface to wikipedia. I like it better than wikipedia
> itself.  Start at floodgap and "go down the hole."

Great, it’s got Wikipedia ... which I can already use directly.  Going
via a Gopher gateway or finding a Gopher client doesn’t sound like an
improvement.

-- 
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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