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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by 7373737373 on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:35AM (#13856136)
Web desktops may be the next step. As much as people are joking about running Javascript on metal, the idea of running a universally accepted virtual machine (WebAssembly?) and building a high level language and operating system on top of it seems to have some merit. See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

http://urbit.org/docs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop

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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by digi_owl on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:39AM (#13856626)
http://www.windows93.net/
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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by beaconstudios on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:45AM (#13856430)
the idea of a web desktop doesn't make sense when we have services like google docs and dropbox that perform the roles of the desktop without the overhead of installing software. The desktop was a forced requirement while content had to be centralised on your PC, why bother with it now that we're freed from that constraint?
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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by TeMPOraL on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:25AM (#13856572)
> The desktop was a forced requirement while content had to be centralised on your PC, why bother with it now that we're freed from that constraint?

Because some of us want content to be centralized on our PCs. We want to own our data, instead of giving it away and then renting back access to it. Related, I consider the push towards abstracting away the file system to be a very bad thing.

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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by beaconstudios on Monday March 13, 2017 @07:47AM (#13856933)
I agree with you completely, especially given all the revelations that have come out about dragnet surveillance, but the OP was talking about web desktops specifically.
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Re:Why Is Gopher Still Relevant? by 7373737373 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:46AM (#13865304)
It's all about namespaces. You can access local files the same way you access web resources and vice versa.
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