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I'm just waiting for Gopher to make a comeback.

by davidw 5y ago

influx 5y ago
Heck, I remember browsing public ftp sites out of boredom.
- jrockway 5y ago
  sumex-aim.stanford.edu
  - reaperducer 5y ago
    cannot resolve sumex-aim.stanford.edu: Unknown host
    - jrockway 5y ago
      Yeah, it's dead. That was the InfoMac archive in the 90s. My middle school self would just download and run everything in there and found some very nifty shareware.
- InCityDreams 5y ago
  ...and some not so public. And much, much quicker to load.
- exikyut 5y ago
  The day I connected "hang on, Explorer can browse FTP sites directly" and "ftp.cdrom.com" was fun. A bit wall-of-folders and distractingly laggy, but fun.
roywiggins 5y ago
That's kinda what gemini is: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ Also, there's a gopher hn mirror: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=hngopher.com+70+31 http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=hngopher.com+70+31
korse 5y ago
What is your definition of 'comeback'? According to mine, gopher already 'came back' and is providing a whole lot of people a nice escape from the javascript fueled nightmare of web x.0
- throwaway82652 5y ago
  That doesn't make any sense. Javascript is not required to use HTTP. You can just turn off Javascript in any web browser, it's not a reason to switch to another protocol.
  - Macha 5y ago
    The other protocol buys you a guarantee that the sites available on it are designed for your use case, rather than trying to chop stuff designed for the web to fit into your subset with mixed success.
    - throwaway82652 5y ago
      No it doesn't, those sites could very easily still be stupid, boring, wrong, offensive, dishonest, or otherwise time-wasting. I don't see how the presence or absence of Javascript has any effect on the content which is what you actually care about. Unless of course, you are like some Hacker News commenters and you seemingly only use the internet to complain about Javascript, in which case that appears to be a circular and self-fulfilling requirement you've created for yourself.
      - neurotrace 5y ago
        If JS had no effect on the experience of the page (or the loading of it) then no one would write it. Personally, I don't generally mind running a bunch of JS but I understand why people don't. I use both the modern web and Gemini
        throwaway82652 5y ago

I'm just waiting for Gopher to make a comeback.

by davidw 5y ago

I'm just waiting for Gopher to make a comeback.

influx 5y ago

Heck, I remember browsing public ftp sites out of boredom.

jrockway 5y ago
sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- reaperducer 5y ago
  cannot resolve sumex-aim.stanford.edu: Unknown host
  - jrockway 5y ago
    Yeah, it's dead. That was the InfoMac archive in the 90s. My middle school self would just download and run everything in there and found some very nifty shareware.
InCityDreams 5y ago
...and some not so public. And much, much quicker to load.
exikyut 5y ago
The day I connected "hang on, Explorer can browse FTP sites directly" and "ftp.cdrom.com" was fun. A bit wall-of-folders and distractingly laggy, but fun.

roywiggins 5y ago

That's kinda what gemini is: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ Also, there's a gopher hn mirror: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=hngopher.com+70+31 http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=hngopher.com+70+31

korse 5y ago

What is your definition of 'comeback'? According to mine, gopher already 'came back' and is providing a whole lot of people a nice escape from the javascript fueled nightmare of web x.0

throwaway82652 5y ago
That doesn't make any sense. Javascript is not required to use HTTP. You can just turn off Javascript in any web browser, it's not a reason to switch to another protocol.
- Macha 5y ago
  The other protocol buys you a guarantee that the sites available on it are designed for your use case, rather than trying to chop stuff designed for the web to fit into your subset with mixed success.
  - throwaway82652 5y ago
    No it doesn't, those sites could very easily still be stupid, boring, wrong, offensive, dishonest, or otherwise time-wasting. I don't see how the presence or absence of Javascript has any effect on the content which is what you actually care about. Unless of course, you are like some Hacker News commenters and you seemingly only use the internet to complain about Javascript, in which case that appears to be a circular and self-fulfilling requirement you've created for yourself.
    - neurotrace 5y ago
      If JS had no effect on the experience of the page (or the loading of it) then no one would write it. Personally, I don't generally mind running a bunch of JS but I understand why people don't. I use both the modern web and Gemini
      - throwaway82652 5y ago