# How many bloggers coded a browser?

[sloum][1] has another inspiring post (I'm so glad gophersphere is full
of interesting people!) about Project Burrow, another gopher client.

Seems like at least ten percent of people publishing interesting gopher
content sooner or later write their own gopher client (and ten percent
of those writer their own gopher server)? Of course this is completely
made up statistics, but it's remarkable how many people actively using
gopher are looking into the protocol and start coding. This may be due
to the inherently nerdy nature of gopher, and also thanks to the simple
protocol inviting experiments.

Anyway -- I was just wondering what the relation might be in comparison
to the web. How many people running a Wordpress blog, Fecebook page or
(formerly) GooglePlus thingy really understand what's going on under
the hood? Not speaking about all the things going on which the men in
the middle don't want you to notice...

I assume the relation is much worse if you compare how many phloggers
are self-publishing (in the sense of running their own server, not
just using a content-management system) to how many bloggers do it.

Whatever the reasons might be, it shows that Gopher is much better than
HTTP/web if you want to keep control of how your content is distributed.
Now we Just Have To (TM) make more of the masses understand this.

I have to admit: so far I have failed miserably in my family and circle
of acquaintances.

Work in progress.

.:.

[1]: gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~sloum/phlog/20181116-17.txt