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An "application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet." RSS? No. That's a description of Gopher, fr
by cmccabe 14y ago
An "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.