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by davidblair 5661 days ago
In some respects HN is a Gopher server adapted for today. Focused on content, links to information, and just enough detail to keep you going.

As a protocol, Gopher is straight forward. Whenever someone talks about the "semantic web" I'm always reminded of Gopher has been doing since 1991. It is in no way perfect, but worked well.

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In the same vein, see: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.thurman... for a gopher interface to Reddit.