# 2018-07-08 19:51:31.073827 UTC (+0000)
Why We Need Gopher
The web has shown to not work towards spreading information, but towards
restricting what is there. As a result of its design flaws we only have
three web engines left to write a client for it, there is a cult of
cruft around designing extension for HTTP and of course there is the
topic of what content is served.
Try using the web using tor. Everywhere a strange clown will appear:
gopher://bitreich.org/0/ascii/clownflare.vt
Is this the freedom we want? Can we trust the logfiles of clownflare?
Using gopher, the protocol is defined and does not know of any arbitary
optimisations for speeding up serving complex documents which execute
scripting language snippets in strange and now nearly cpu-opcode-low
ways. It is possible to write a client in a simple shell script, in
every language in under five minutes. Writing a server is even easier.
Then let us discuss openly why we need gopher:
* To present all information in the world in an unobstrusive way.
* To be able to communicate with Mars[0]
* To safely communicate over tor with defined metadata. Nothing is hidden.
* To show that there is an alternative to the web, which can do the same.
* Showing this allows different viewpoints on the web and the
Internet. New ideas can spark from this.
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* See more about this at my talk at bitreichcon 2018! *
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Have fun!
20h
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gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20180705-space-gopher-2000
