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Right, this is exactly what happened to Gopher and FTP. They were good at their one job. They were replaced by HTTP.
by krallja 4y ago
Right, this is exactly what happened to Gopher and FTP. They were good at their one job. They were replaced by HTTP.
- kiwidrew 4y agoOriginally HTML just had the <isindex> element, which was very similar to Gopher's primitive "search" functionality. Adding the <form> element with named input fields was a pretty obvious next step, and the fact that HTTP/HTML evolved to support it while Gopher did not says quite a bit about the culture behind these two protocols.