"30 years ago this week…something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain…#CERN owned Berners-Lee's invention and…had the option to license [it] out…for profit. But Berners-Lee believed that keeping the web as open as possible would help it grow…[He] eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the #PublicDomain without any #patents or fees."
@aardvark@petersuber When I first saw #Gopher in 1992 (on a text-only terminal, natch), I thought it was The Future. You could follow a link from information on one computer to information on another in one step!
#lisp y #gopher show w/ screwtape only on #aNONradio hosted by @SDF public access unix (1200UTC Wednesday)
ALFRED'S NAME IS ALFRED NOT ARNOLD
@amszmidt is looking for more up and coming lisp hackers for the LM-3 MIT CADR emulation, just released version 100, porting now to a newer* fpga softcore release
#interlisp Xerox Network Services, the 2018..2022 implementation of.
openbsd release day, I'm claiming this as a gopher topic because I phlog from the openbsd gopher://tilde.institute
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
Under the same pretense of security, support for classic (some would say obsolete) protocols such as #FTP and #Gopher has already been removed from all major browsers. In some browsers, such as #Firefox, this has been an intentional choice. Others, like @Vivaldi have been basically forced into this position by their reliance on Google's engine.
I'm finally ready to unveil my new weird software project that I've been working on: #Cosmarmot, a #Gopher to #Gemini gateway. I've got a public instance running at gopher://cosmarmot.space. Screenshots below in TurboGopher on #MacOS System 7.5, and in #Bombadillo in #CoolRetroTerm (since I can't take a real screenshot on my VT420).
Useful (?) for #Retrocomputing: if your old computer will run a Gopher client, but doesn't have the oomph to do the TLS a Gemini client needs, point it at Cosmarmot and explore Geminispace.
It seems like the people responding to this poll (so far) skew towards those who experienced the Internet in the 1990s and earlier.
Which might suggest there are a lot of people on the #Fediverse that not only remember the #oldInternet , but might want to support, bring back, and re-create & restore the best parts of the "old Internet".