@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoWe should not let the open web die a quiet deathwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1303arrow-down119
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year ago HTTP beat Gopher in part because Gopher was owned by a university that wanted to charge money for it. I was not aware of any of this… I’ll have to read up on it as it sounds fascinating. So many people are unaware of how things came to be.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoGopher is like very simple and cool. Something similar to Telnet but it’s own thing. It’s free nowadays btw but ofc nobody uses it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year agoGopher and telnet are not the same sort of thing. Gopher is like the Web. Telnet is like SSH. Gopher lets you fetch documents and directories off of remote servers that can link to each other. Telnet lets you connect to a remote server as if you had a terminal on that computer.
I was not aware of any of this… I’ll have to read up on it as it sounds fascinating. So many people are unaware of how things came to be.
Gopher is like very simple and cool. Something similar to Telnet but it’s own thing. It’s free nowadays btw but ofc nobody uses it.
Gopher and telnet are not the same sort of thing.
Gopher is like the Web. Telnet is like SSH.
Gopher lets you fetch documents and directories off of remote servers that can link to each other. Telnet lets you connect to a remote server as if you had a terminal on that computer.