How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web 239
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.
You kids and your fancy gopher (Score:5, Funny)
I'm pressing ESC twice to access this damn BBS.
And More Laws will destroy it (Score:5, Funny)
Gophers? (Score:2, Funny)
I loved Gopher (Score:5, Funny)
Thats what is really stopping me from getting an iPhone, because I can't access badger-net.
Re:lol whut? (Score:2, Funny)
We only pray that whoever invented the tag was executed by firing squad.
Re:lol whut? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Uh, no. (Score:3, Funny)
...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.
Re:And now, imagine the Web without IE and Flash (Score:1, Funny)
Yes I too long for the good old days of Netscape's anti-web-standards Navigator and Sun's CPU-wasting Java.
Re:Irritation (Score:2, Funny)
Re:lol whut? (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:lol whut? (Score:1, Funny)
Geek fight!
Alternate universe eh? (Score:2, Funny)
"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.