[gopher] Re: Fate of the Protocol (was Re: Gopherness)

["Jay Nemrow" <jnemrow@xxxxxxx>]

Matt.  Gopher is not going to "regain a foothold".  It will continue
to get more and more marginal and no change to it will slow the slide,
much less reverse it.  http rose and gopher sank.  Everything gopher
does, www can do and much more, except slimming bandwidth, but very
few care about that in a DSL/Cable world.

I can't see your vision ever happening.  Gopher is essentially dead to
nearly everyone, if they even knew it ever lived.  Apparently, we just
never attended the funeral.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Matthew Holevinski <eylusion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> That's why i want gopher to regain a foothold on the internet, i'm not
> bludgeoned to death with meeting singles in my local area, i'm not
> castrated with thousands of sign up pages just to get at the
> information I want. Just a simple gopher:// go here, click this, read
> that, and i'm done.
>
> Matt