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Resurgence in the tech sphere
May 18th, 2022
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Quotes from Hacker News:

tonfreed

Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere?

Honest question, if you like it I'm not trying to put you down, but I just don't see how it's any better or worse than HTTP

dragonwriter

> Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere?

I think it's largely a demonstrative reaction against the appification of the web, built upon gopher’s more limited interface which is more heavily optimized to a read-only hypertext use case, which fits a lot of people's nostalgic idealization of the early web.

jhoechtl
> Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere?

I think it's largely a demonstrative reaction against the commercialization of the web, built upon gopher’s more limited interface which is more heavily optimized to a read-only hypertext use case, which fits a lot of people's nostalgic idealization of the early web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31417839