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If the web had been as unpopular as RSS readers, things might have been different. In a health market, if the leader fails to innovate, competitors come in and
by tomkarlo 14y ago
If the web had been as unpopular as RSS readers, things might have been different. In a health market, if the leader fails to innovate, competitors come in and steal share.
In an unhealthy market that's not growing any more (like RSS), things get a lot more stagnant because folks aren't actively making product choices any more and there's not a lot of incentive for new entrants.
I'm betting there's not a ton of innovation in the Gopher market, either.
- sageikosa 14y agoGopher is now in its post-apocalyptic "Thunderdome" phase.
- cmccabe 14y agoAn "application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet." RSS? No. That's a description of Gopher, from Wikipedia. I just realized something... RSS is the new Gopher.
- tomkarlo 14y agoThat description also describes HTTP, SPDY, and a bunch of other protocols. Relatively speaking, RSS never achieved the kind of popularity. Back in about 1993, there were more Gopher sites than HTTP sites.