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       Thread[.post]: 36.6
       TACKER:  secretdecoder (secretdecoder)
       SUBJECT: .. How you were using the Internet in the 90's?
       DATE:    24-Jan-22 18:22:19
       HOST:    sdf
       
       cross - I think your perspective is quite congruent to mine.  I suspect 
       there is an option (c) which is pushing some of the interest in gopher and 
       the smollnet movements: To be off the regular search engine path.
       
       Much like the darkweb exists in parallel to the www but for nefarious 
       reasons, I have a sense gopher is trying to exist in parallel for 
       golden-nostagia-tinged altruistic reasons.
       
       And because it is by definition a cookie-less protocol is simply CANNOT 
       track you site to site the way HTTP/HTML allows.  So some real privacy gain 
       there.
       
       I wonder what "kids" will reflect on as the golden-age internet aspect of 
       the here and now.  Discord channels?  I don't think.  Actually... I 
       suspect it is sandbox games.  They will pine for the Minecraft worlds and 
       communities that they built.  For the sweet happy utopia of their Animal 
       Crossing islands and tight friend groups that assembled there.  And it will 
       still mostly be with people that they knew IRL that cemented their bonds in 
       these virtual spaces.
       
       Some of my closest friends I still have are from the BBS days.  But there 
       was something beyond that made us bond:  Music.  We came there to connect 
       about that.  But found that our love of music AND computers made for extra 
       
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       cross - I think your perspective is quite congruent to mine.  I suspect 
       there is an option (c) which is pushing some of the interest in gopher and 
       the smollnet movements: To be off the regular search engine path.
       
       Much like the darkweb exists in parallel to the www but for nefarious 
       reasons, I have a sense gopher is trying to exist in parallel for 
       golden-nostagia-tinged altruistic reasons.
       
       And because it is by definition a cookie-less protocol is simply CANNOT 
       track you site to site the way HTTP/HTML allows.  So some real privacy gain 
       there.
       
       I wonder what "kids" will reflect on as the golden-age internet aspect of 
       the here and now.  Discord channels?  I don't think.  Actually... I 
       suspect it is sandbox games.  They will pine for the Minecraft worlds and 
       communities that they built.  For the sweet happy utopia of their Animal 
       Crossing islands and tight friend groups that assembled there.  And it will 
       still mostly be with people that they knew IRL that cemented their bonds in 
       these virtual spaces.
       
       Some of my closest friends I still have are from the BBS days.  But there 
       was something beyond that made us bond:  Music.  We came there to connect 
       about that.  But found that our love of music AND computers made for extra 
       tight comradery.
       
       cheers,
       =sd=
       
       
       
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