[ih] gopher broke, was "The Internet runs on Proposed Standards"

[John Levine]

According to Dave Crocker via Internet-history <dcrocker at bbiw.net>:
>On 12/5/2022 9:28 AM, Larry Masinter wrote:
>> I think the motivation to surpass Gopher traffic compared to HTTP (I 
>> remember a graph showing the relative usage) was more important than 
>> the abstract discussion about two-way linlks/

Gopher was great, and as Dave noted, it was a lot easier to get working.

But Gopher committed suicide when the U of Minnesota tried to charge
license fees for it.  If they hadn't, we might still have Gopher as
a lightweight alternative to the web for constrained devices and
environments.

R's,
John
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