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Re:Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:00PM (#47954586)
Many LLM agents do automated web searches.
Re:Usenet Personality on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:09PM (#46814976)
I'm starting to think Archimedes Plutonium was wrong about his Plutonium Atom Totality conjecture.
The web took over, but as discussed on HN before, the University of Minnesota did their best to help kill Gopher when they tried to license it for commercial use.

University of Minnesota Gopher software licensing policy (1993) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150331

The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269784