XPost: comp.infosystems   
   From: yeti@tilde.institute   
      
   John McCue  wrote:   
      
   > Followups trimmed to: news.software.nntp   
      
   Why <*.nntp>?   
      
    (added it) would have fit better?   
      
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   IMO oldstyle plain HTTP looks easier to implement[P] than Gopher, and if   
   you look for maximised simplicity, look at NEX[N].  Serving HTTP over   
   Gopher or NEX is possible, and HTML over FTP was common in the WWW's   
   early days.   
      
   Back in the 90s Gopher was supported by the default browsers.  Today it   
   smells like pure nostalgia or separatism.  Browsers were invented as   
   multi protocol network file viewers to make users' access to documents   
   easier.  Now they degraded to single protocol network file viewers and   
   instead of a revolting user base rejecting HTTP-only browsers, the   
   answer seems more separatism implemented as lots of single protocol   
   network file viewers for Gemini, Gopher, Guppy, Mole, Nex, Scorpion,   
   Scroll, Spartan, and more[S].  This is not what the Web and the   
   browser(s) were meant to be.   
      
                   Interoperability created the (Inter)Net.   
      
                    Bring back multi[M] protocol browsers!   
      
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   [M]: Chawan, Dillo, Elinks, Links, W3M and even Emacs bring back access   
        to lots of protocols via the same application, and so does:   
      
          SMOLNET PORTAL   
             
      
   [N]: NEX looks like pure simplicity ...   
      
          NEX INFORMATION CENTER   
             
      
        ... but there are still some unanswered question:   
      
          THE NEX PROTOCOL   
             
      
   [P]: Sure implementing HTML is a different calibre, but we should   
        discuss protocols and text formats independently.   
      
   [S]: See ...   
      
          From: Michael Lazar    
          Newsgroups: gmane.network.protocols.gemini   
          Subject: SMALL INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUNDUP   
          Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:15:22 -0400   
          Subject: SMALL INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUNDUP   
          Message-ID:    
      
        ... which was updated by ...   
      
             
      
        ... but I currently cannot access Scorpion.  There was a copy of it   
        in a  group, but I forgot where I have the   
        bookmark.  :-(   
      
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