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They were talking about finally adding MIME types to Gopher+ in 2002, which I think was too late to compete with the Web. Sniffing for UCS-2 or UTF-8 or Latin-1
by erik_seaberg 2y ago
They were talking about finally adding MIME types to Gopher+ in 2002, which I think was too late to compete with the Web. Sniffing for UCS-2 or UTF-8 or Latin-1 might have worked or might have given us more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake.
- paulddraper 2y agoAnd what happened since 2002? Irrelevance?
- erik_seaberg 2y agoThat's my guess.
- ahefner 2y agoGopher had been irrelevant for half a decade by 2002.