gopher is not part of 'the modern web' and that's a good thing


	That is the best way I can summ it up. The 'modern web' means
walled gardens, which is almost impossible in gopher sites and
not what http/html and gopher were designed for.

	Sure, almost nothing supports it anymore,  but gopher has two
advantages that http and html don't: first, it is under the GNU GPL
copyleft license, and second, gopher's usual format (menus and text)
mean that it pretty much must interconnect, as you cannot provide 
everything on one server.

	That near requirement for interconnection makes a 'modern'
walled garden impossible. In fact, the original gopher developers had
do most of the later work on gopher during their own time because
the university administration hated that it would not allow for
a walled garden. Both the web's and gopher's first server were
hosted on personal computing. We should take back the internet from
what the internet was meant to allow us to escape: mainframes.

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