The Web Is Broken Beyond Repair. The Alternative? GOPHER!

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[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm all for minimalism and clean design, and I agree that javascript-heavy ram hogging websites and browsers are not ideal. That said, the http protocol offers so much more now, such as SSL (https) which is pretty much mandatory these days.

Using outdated protocols such as gopher seems like little more than a novelty to me. I mean, you can browse http sites as text only using lynx just the same as gopher. BBS's were an integral part of the early net, but they have been eclipsed by modern technology with greater features and security such as forums, federated social media, and chat protocols such as matrix.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

" Gopher is an alternative protocol to the standard http (world wide web) protocol. The modern web is slow, bloated and just sucks due to the Internet being dominated by the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others. Websites are now built with CSS, JavaScript, PHP, databases, images, multimedia and, of course, advertisements! It's not unusual to open Chrome of Firefox and push over 1GB of RAM usage with just one tab open. This is absurd! "

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Puts the GOP in Gopher.

[–]fred_red_beans 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don't think saidit will work on gopher...

[–]sawboss[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course SaidIt won't work on gopher. It requires javascript.

[–]fred_red_beans 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yea, no active pages of any type, but very lightweight - could be used to archive a lot of information.