Date: 2025-06-11 Updated: 2025-06-16

Gopher is noise

They say it's simple.
It's not.

Fake minimal.
Old doesn't mean clean.

Selectors.
Fields.
Types.
Rules.

You don't need it.
No one does.

Menus pretending to be files.
Selectors pretending to be paths.
Types pretending to mean something.

Finger does not deserve even this line.
Old garbage wrapped in a protocol.

This isn't minimalism.
This is academic legacy.
Unix, dressed in web's fear.

A protocol built by a generation that couldn't let go of control.
So others can pretend they're off-grid while still playing dress-up?

Gopher lies.
Pretends to be flat.
But hides trees.
And typing.
And magic.

It's not light.
It's not raw.
It's just old.

It says menu, I say text.
=> /013 The NEX