Bombadillo is a non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web.

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

u/Tom_Bombadil copyright infringement.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Tis' named after myself, and The Protocols of Bombadil.

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What is this? You got me curious...

Interestingly, I am just reading LOTR for the first time, so now I know where that name comes from. ;-)

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Tom-tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! Blue is his jacket, and his boots are yellow!

[–]ex_penibus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Gopher..? I was expecting TOR, hive blockchain apps, stuff like that. Not protocols from the 80s...

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Agreed, that's a bit surprising. But maybe it can fly under the radar? Still... I think combining some of these protocols with hive blockchains and such distributed Internet resources might work? Question is why, instead of developing their own.

Teamspeak developed their own comms protocol, where there is actually such a thing as a "ts3server://" link. The same could be done here.

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And wow, gopher and telnet are staging a comeback? Holy crap, I remember those from my early days on the 'Net back when "the WWW" was really just links sending to other places with more links sending to yet more places, etc.