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> Now, what can you do?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/
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> Among the team's offenses: Gopher didn’t use a mainframe computer and its server-client setup empowered anyone with a PC, not a central authority. While it did everything the U required and then some, to the committee it felt like a middle finger. “You’re not supposed to have written this!” Alberti says of the group’s reaction. “This is some lark, never do this again!” The Gopher team was forbidden from further work on the protocol.
https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol
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From the comments:
> The sneer about Al Gore inventing the Internet has always annoyed me. When we were working on Gopher we were visited by exactly one sitting US Senator. Al Gore. He was there, where were the rest of his critics?
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Imo even if gopher would have been used instead of what we currently use it would have been changed to what we have now.
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@mangeurdenuage My thought *exactly*. Gopher is this innocent and unblemished protocol because it was unsuccessful.
Still, that doesn't mean we can't use it for our innocent and unblemished porpoises today.
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@zaitcev @mangeurdenuage For all intensive porpoises, an outboist of whimsy.