[gopher] Question

Kim Holviala kim at holviala.com
Wed Feb 11 21:32:24 UTC 2015


> On 11 Feb 2015, at 17:29, NN NN <aepedia at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> For what reasons is Gopher needed if there are FTP and HTTP?


FTP provides directories but no hyperlinks. HTTP provides hyperlinks but no directories. Gopher provides both hyperlinks and directories combining both FTP and HTTP. Of course no one uses Gopher, but that’s another story :-) 



- Kim






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