[martindale]

IRC is just a protocol, like HTTP.

[pyre]

... and protocols never truly die? Like Gopher?

[twic]

What? Gopher isn't dead, buddy. There are over 160 servers.

[pyre]

Forgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting for Gopher to come back in-style though. ;-)

[brianpgordon]

One of them serving legitimate files, even!

(Only on waning gibbous moons.)

[riffraff]

I still go to freenode, but being a protocol doesn't mean it can't die, i.e. gopher is practically dead.

[cema]

So is gopher.