Re: web

On 2025-01-19, yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
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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.

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I contradict.
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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.