alt Hacker News> Why couldn't we have FTP and Gopher support in web browsers instead?
I mean not really, they are ancient and horribly insecure protocols without enough users to justify improving them.
> Why couldn't we have FTP and Gopher support in web browsers instead?
I mean not really, they are ancient and horribly insecure protocols without enough users to justify improving them.
I don't think they needed improving in order to continue accessing the existing sites that still used them.
Also, you may not have noticed this, but you're commenting on a thread that's largely about PETSCII and Videotex.
Fortunately, AFAIK, there isn't any significant body of existing Sixel art we need to preserve access to.