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

From Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
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 11:58 -0500
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Richard Kettlewell 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.
>
I think most of what's there is simply for the sake of showing off Gopher.

The stuff that used it migrated at some point, like that McGill University 
classified ad site that I mentioned.  So people want to show off Gopher 
now, but that's primary rather than the contents.  I think.

   Michael

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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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