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See Gemini and Gopher. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424
by MaxBarraclough 5y ago
See Gemini and Gopher.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424
- approxim8ion 5y agoGopher is the opposite of new. Gemini is interesting for sure, but it's not an alternative to the web as they fully admit. It's an alternative to a subset of the web. Let's call it the document web. Blogs and articles and so on. But as entertaining as it is, it is a very very small subset.
- sfink 5y agoThat's the point. If you want the web, you need today's browsers. If you want a subset of the web, your "document web" for example, you can get away with something simpler.
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoRespectfully, you're failing to engage with the purpose of the project. > it's not an alternative to the web Right. You can't have a lightweight drop-in alternative to the web, pretty much by definition. Any platform capable of everything modern browsers are capable of, is by definition enormously complex. > it is a very very small subset That's not a flaw, it's a design goal. It isn't meant to be a half-baked portable GUI toolkit the way the modern web platform is, it's meant to be a simple and minimal format, stable and easy to implement. There are other formats somewhat like this in common usage, like man pages and, of course markdown.
- approxim8ion 5y agoI don't disagree with you at all. I like Gemini and think it is a very worthwhile pursuit.
- pmontra 5y agoGopher is from 1991. I've been using it back then but HTTP won quite easily.