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1 # 2017-09-29 12:22:20.142744 UTC (+0000) |
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3 Why We Need Gopher |
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5 Gopher has been called »legacy« or »was used before the web«. There are |
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6 good reasons to use and work on the development of gopher. |
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7 |
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8 ## A different view on the Web |
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9 |
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10 With only the the web available the views on what can be there or could |
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11 be done is too small‐minded. The Internet is not the web, it can be dif‐ |
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12 ferent. The Internet can be different too, but has not yet evolved in |
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13 the complexity of the web. |
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14 |
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15 ## Simplicity in Mind |
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16 |
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17 Gopher menus do not allow you the freedom of HTML and all its technolo‐ |
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18 gies. This forces developers to narrow down the problem they try to |
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19 solve. Instead of raping web technologies to fit to the problem, the |
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20 problem is rethought to fit to gopher. |
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21 |
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22 ## Metadata under Control |
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24 The development of mass surveillance, big databases and core router con‐ |
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25 trol of intelligence agencies has taught us to not expose unneeded meta‐ |
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26 data. Gopher does only expose the needed metadata. If gopher is run over |
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27 tor you are as safe as the peer you are connecting to in a hidden ser‐ |
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28 vice. There is no header data with user‐agent variabilities or |
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29 javascript DOM hidden fields that can be used to create permanent cook‐ |
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30 ies to expose your personal life. |
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31 |
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32 ## Resources are Rare |
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33 |
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34 Webbrowsers now use OpenGL, your USB devices, run nearly byte code in |
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35 javascript, burn your CPU and battery life for no new information. Text |
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36 files are read on youtube videos. For this information transfer a well |
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37 written text is easier to edit and be reused by users, who should be |
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38 producers. The Internet is for producing, not consuming. We should not |
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39 waste resources on videos, we should write nice texts with some ASCII |
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40 layout. |
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41 |
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42 ## Simple Content Production |
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43 |
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44 As said before, the Internet should be for producing content, not for |
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45 consuming it. Users of the web are forced to be customers and only al‐ |
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46 lowed to produce content which can be bound into advertisement. With go‐ |
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47 pher you can setup a server in no time and simply write a text file you |
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48 offer to the world. |
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49 |
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50 ## For Fun |
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51 |
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52 Customers who only take away from the world without giving will not use |
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53 gopher for a long time. This filters its userbase to interested people. |
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54 Those people are mostly caring and nice. Come on #bitreich‐en for more! |
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56 |
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57 Have fun! |
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59 20h |
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