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5166cc9c39fa61 on Feb 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: COI – Chat Over IMAP

> The products you mention are all good examples of niche products for techies.

The blind person that told me about how much better Gopher was than the modern web for blind people was not a techie, and I don't think it is moral to treat disabilities as just a "niche."

innagadadavida on Feb 24, 2019 [–]

No offense to the blind, but their rest of us do want funky graphics, emojis and cat gifs.

admax88q on Feb 26, 2019 | [–]

Gopher support rich media, it just doesn't double as a client side application platform like the modern web does.

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