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Gopher and the Lynx Web (2019)
As part of the ongoing revitalization of gopher, there has been quite a bit of discussion about what, exactly, is good about gopher, and whether you can separate that from what’s bad about the world wide web. From another angle: are there good things about the web that we can import to alleviate gopher’s shortcomings? The discourse A recent thread of that conversation has been an exchange between ~solderpunk and ~enkiv2.
Note that all of these except transport encryption are backwards compatible with existing gopher, at least in the sense that they would degrade gracefully in clients that didn’t support them. The way selector semantics are abused in practice shows that current gopher users do want these features, and it makes sense to design them in. There’s clearly a wide range of possibilities between the most strict interpretation of gopher and the most ad-riddled, surveillance-funded single page app, and I don’t think that it’s a simple slippery slope from Lynx to Chrome.
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