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Aren't they picking favorites then?

I mean what about alternatives like litecoin?

Yes. Favorites like http and not gopher.

Litecoin will get whitelisted if it ever becomes important or useful.

If gopher is actually left out I won't be "upgrading" my pages to HTML5. Some of us still use these technologies even if they may not be the latest and greatest.

> Some of us

For very small values of 'some'.

Can you give a couple of (practical!) examples where gopher has not been replaced by http?

Chrome, explorer, opera and safari do not support gopher, and from 4.0 firefox did not support it either (though there is a plug-in).

I was speaking for myself rather than making a principled stand; my site still links back to some documents on my old university's system, via gopher. Perhaps there is an http equivalent that new students would use, but if there is then I don't have access to it.

Me too. Also, If the phone company makes it to where I can't use my 2400 baud modem anymore I am canceling my account.

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