On 4/14/15 3:47 PM, commodorej...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 2:51:32 PM UTC-7, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Candidly, and not because I still run such a site, I've always found
Gopher to be a better fit for resource-constrained computing. The
Commodore 128 sitting next to me does very well for that because the
protocol and menu parsing conventions are incredibly trivial.
>
Certainly true on a "how well can it keep up?" level, but unfortunately
precious few sites support Gopher these days, so while it may be a better
fit it offers vastly more constricted access to online resources.
The counter argument is, of course, that the "modern Web" (however you
define it) is effectively out of reach of computers older than a decade
or so, let alone an 8-bit system, due to loss of vendor or browser
support, or just plain not being up to the task. So even if they could
access the pages, meaningfully displaying them is another thing
entirely. I won't dispute the much smaller amount of content available
in Gopherspace, but it's still an option that has *some* support, and
that support is often in the retrocomputing community already.
Graceful degradation went out the window a couple years back, unfortunately.
Anyway, I'm derailing the topic, so I'll put a sock in it now.
Cameron Kaiser
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