why is everybody suddenly talking about gopher

@squirrel somewhere between nostalgia and hope for the future...? hrm...

@squirrel Well, I made a joke about "y'know what? The web sucks, let's just go back to gopher" and suddenly a lot of people started talking about gopher

I'm pretty sure that was coincidence or baader-meinhof but there's a small possibility it may have been my fault

@squirrel Some people get nostalgic about the early days of the Internet and some are hoping for a Caddyshack reboot. 😁

@squirrel because the W3C mandated DRM support as part of HTML5. There are few safe web browsers any more(GNU #Icecat , #Palemoon , #Torbrowser and my own fork #palermoon and what, elinks??? plus a couple others) and they have a vanashingly small % of the www as userbase. It's time to regroup on some other platform that does hyperlinks and WWW-like things.

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