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"Why introduce this HTML/HTTP thing when we have Gopher? Don't re-invent the wheel!" Re-inventing the wheel is good. It's the only way we'll ever get better wh
by api 16y ago
"Why introduce this HTML/HTTP thing when we have Gopher? Don't re-invent the wheel!"
Re-inventing the wheel is good. It's the only way we'll ever get better wheels.
- Groxx 16y agoIndeed; for all we know, our wheels are oblong if not triangular. Without reinventing the wheel sometimes, you'd never come up with stuff like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
- arethuza 16y agoThere were potential licensing issues with Gopher - by the time the creators of Gopher realized that this had scared off a lot of people and that they had shot themselves in the foot everyone had settled on using the Web - which had no such licensing issues.