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For those who were around for the original Gopher, what the name evokes is not just the networking protocol or services built on it, but, more importantly: It
by natch 5y ago
For those who were around for the original Gopher, what the name evokes is not just the networking protocol or services built on it, but, more importantly:
It evokes the feel of a technology that is impressive this year but is on the cusp of being overwhelmingly, cataclysmically, eclipsed very shortly by another, much more powerful, technology. In that previous case, Gopher and web of course.
I wonder whether this evocation was intended, as an aspect of the naming here in an AI context.