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> "I don't think IRC will really die, it will become a more fringey thing though. Probably more than it already is." Like Gopher? Still out there and bein' us
by blooalien 2y ago
> "I don't think IRC will really die, it will become a more fringey thing though. Probably more than it already is."
Like Gopher? Still out there and bein' used. Very "fringe" now though.
- wkat4242 2y agoGopher was already fringe in 1991 tbh. If you'd even find a gopher server it'd be already outdated in terms of info. And it makes sense. Hyperlinking was just a really really good idea, much better than a list of fixed links in a document. The whole Gopher idea (fixed links) actually made a bit of a return on old Nokia mobile phones with "WAP" but it never really took off because it sucked so badly. I made some WAP sites at the time but it was pretty terrible. 1-bit black/white images, a very strict layout and protocol. Bleh. When the WWW came out gopher was pretty much instantly forgotten. And don't forget the whole internet was "fringe" back then.