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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <87wpqtxzzy.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> (permalink) |
| 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> |
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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