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.

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[alexborges]

My gopher pr0n!

Re:And More Laws will destroy it

[PopeRatzo]

Are all the Slashdot members with user numbers between 1250000 and 1350000 Republican/Libertarian goofs trying to astroturf us into the comments section of the Reason Magazine website or what?

Seriously, I've got a feeling that after the November general election they decided they wouldn't be able to turn around the hearts and minds of Americans unless they made an all-out assault on Slashdot, because naturally, Slashdot is the number one opinion-leader in the World.