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I think quite a few people are with you on this, maybe what we need to do is work together and all link to each other.
If we perhaps also set up a gopher, we could link those together too, that way if anyone tries to say 'no one uses it' the number of interlinked gopher servers tell a different story.
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Before the web was around there was a protocol for searching other computers called gopher.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) in 1993 gopher was probably bigger than the web, in 1997 it was a tiny fraction of the size of the web. Netscape Navigator was a web browser but it also had gopher and ftp capabilities.
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@zleap @dlakelan @courtcan @cmccullough Firefox does not support Gopher, and there's no reason why Gopher couldn't be crawled for AI training, it's just not because it's not popular enough. If it was more popular it surely would be.
@zleap @cmccullough I have no inkling of a conceptual hypothesis for what a "gopher" is in this context, but I do have a blog. 😁