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How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web
Urchin writes "In the early 1990s, the World Wide Web was a power-hungry monster unpopular with network administrators, says Robert Topolski, chief technologist of the Open Technology Initiative. They preferred the sleek text-only Gopher protocol. Had they been able to use data filtering technology to prioritize gopher traffic Topolski thinks the World Wide Web might not have survived. But it took computers another decade or so to be powerful enough to give administrators that option, and by that time the Web was already enormously popular." My geek imagination is now all atwitter imagining an alternate gopher-driven universe.
I'm pressing ESC twice to access this damn BBS.
or try their hardest at least.
Oh, not the little, brown, furry rodents.
Thats what is really stopping me from getting an iPhone, because I can't access badger-net.
We only pray that whoever invented the tag was executed by firing squad.
You can't take the sky from me.
Perhaps, you worthless piece of crap, you should have my post. But being that you're too fucking stupid to probably even breathe without your genetically-diseased mother popping her head through the day shouting "Asswipe, inhale!", I guess I can forgive you your cretinism and illiteracy.
But please, quit trying to hump your dog. She's a he, and has been dead for a couple of years. I know, with your puny mind, it's hard to fathom necrophilic bestiality being wrong, but somewhere in the slack-jawed, low-browed head of yours there must be some small glimmer of morality.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
...or at least a super-Gopher.
I, for one, welcome our new underground overlords.
Sorry, the thought of super-Gophers scares me more than cloned dogs, or Africanized bees, or cloned dogs with Africanized bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you.
Extra medication for all!
Yes I too long for the good old days of Netscape's anti-web-standards Navigator and Sun's CPU-wasting Java.
No. If I hadn't scratched my arse at that one time in the 90s, the default color of hyperlinks would be green.
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
14.4k.. why, that was blazing speed. I remember hitting bulletin boards with my 300 baud modem and downloading 16 color pr0n pics and playing empire :)
Of course, I was such a geek I had the 10mb Hard Drive for my c64 :) (still do actually... need to pull it out and see if it still works)
Geez.. I'm old... Get of my lawn.
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
Oooooh... Burn.
Geek fight!
"My geek imagination is now all atwitter imagining an alternate gopher-driven universe."
It looks a lot like this one except everyone has a pointy goatee, including the gopher-driven internet.
Insert witty sig here.