I sometimes mention that our radio used to broadcast games you could tape off the air to young people and they fail to grasp the futuristic glory I experienced when I explained to myself it's like one-way modem.
It was so nice. No pictures at all. Just text of different sizes and block art. And the wait time made you read in order once and not 'doomscrool'.
The limited text length forced the writers to keep it short.
My point being, one way coms are underrated.
Even nowadays I still use it a lot myself for a quick catch up of the news. Some of the benefits: - Since space is limited, the news stories are ultra short and to the point - No ads - No "related stories" - No toxic comment sections - No misleading 'thumbnails'
It doesn't take longer than a minute or two to catch up on the most important stories.
gopher://magical.fish/1/news
same as above, but for proxied to the web:
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fmagic...