From: bencollver@tilde.pink   
      
   On 2025-01-19, yeti  wrote:   
   > Ben Collver  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In short, gopher is not the web.  It does not use the HTTP protocol,   
   >> the HTML format, nor other web standards such as Javascript.  Gopher   
   >> is a separate protocol that is not directly viewable in mainstream   
   >> browsers such as Chrome and Mozilla.   
   >   
   > I contradict.   
   >   
   > When browsers appeared, we thought of the web as what was accessible   
   > by them.  FTP, HTTP and Gopher were among this in the early days.   
      
   In the dawn of the Internet some people used a service called FTPmail   
   because it could be faster and cheaper to transfer data over email   
   than over direct Internet connections.  By your logic, one could argue   
   that FTP is email because it was historically used in email clients.   
   One could also argue that because when browsers appeared, they could   
   view HTML content over the Server Message Block protocol, that CIFS   
   is also the web.  Such arguments strike me as disingenuous.   
      
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