1 Aug
2023
1 Aug
'23
10:27 p.m.
On 8/1/23 10:55 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
Interesting. I don't really get the point of the
Gopher revival, to be
honest;
Retro? Reminiscence?
sure, I get that people want non-graphical,
non-ad-laden content,
but it sure seems like you could get something like that with the
web just using a text-mode browser like `lynx` or even `links` and
something like `gomarkdown`.
Presumably people are creating new content to use in the newer Gopher
sphere, etc.
So if people are creating new content, why can't they create the same
content in simple no-add HTML.
It's like the people who want to use Fidonet as
an "alternative"
to email. I mean, one can use the same protocols in parallel with
the mainstream services.
I was pawing at FidoNet (or other FTNs) as an alternative to SMTP
specifically because it was not SMTP.
Not that anything's wrong with SMTP to prevent it's use. My interest is
in the form of avoiding a single protocol failure.
Grant. . . .