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Subject: Gopher seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 17:48:54 -0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <t63bi6$kbu$1@dont-email.me>
The following question from a current thread on Hacker News …
Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech
sphere?
… got already some nice answers, I think. For instance:
There's a resurgence in general against the "bloated web" […] In a
way, static site generators were a reaction to complex CMS
systems. […] A major catalyst is the Gemini protocol which emerged a
few short years ago and gained some popularity. In the wake of that,
people re-discovered the Gopher protocol as well.
I think it's largely a demonstrative reaction against the
appification/commercialization of the web, built upon gopher’s more
limited interface which is more heavily optimized to a read-only
hypertext use case, which fits a lot of people's nostalgic
idealization of the early web.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31418693
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