https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/11/17/lazy-reading-for-2024-11-17/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:48:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/11/17/lazy-reading-for-2024-11-17/comment-page-1/#comment-494463 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:48:40 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28807#comment-494463 Gopher asking for money too early, thus letting the Web eat its lunch, may be the most quotable example of capitalist mentality ruining things. That web protocols are also infinitely more flexible only cemented Gopher’s fate. (That, and computers becoming absurdly more powerful between 1990 and 1994: hadn’t thought of that angle.) How ironic that modern unofficial extensions are more elegant and useful than Gopher+.

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