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Is there a reasonable use for gopher nowadays, or is it just 'retro cool'?
by davidwritesbugs 4y ago
Is there a reasonable use for gopher nowadays, or is it just 'retro cool'?
- xena 4y agoI think that as people get older there's an increasing desire for things to be simple again. This will never happen of course, but it can be useful to have a small island of simplicity to go back to every so often.
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- davidwritesbugs 4y agoVery perceptive and I tend to agree.
- FerretFred 4y agoPersonally speaking .. with a perceived growing trend towards using low(er) power hardware - planning for dystopian power shortages etc - I know that I can host a reasonable server on a Raspberry Pi and still have it working effectively. I had mine running on a Pi2B for quite a while, but with the introduction of the Pi Zero 2 and the addition of an ethernet HAT, that's also a viable device. The size of the gopher files library will be determined by the USB stick you can afford.
- weberer 4y agoBrowsing text files online without needing a browser that eats up gigabytes of memory for javascript sandboxing.