Immaterial. If the answer is either 'yes' or 'no', it makes no actual difference: gopher still exists, is still a thing, is still successful. It feels like you're just trying to move the goal-posts and redefine what 'lose' means and trying to lure the poster into a "gotcha".

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sharpfuryz 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's not about a "gotcha." Browsers once supported the GOPHER protocol but dropped it around a decade ago. This serves as an analogy: if users don't use XSLT/XML daily, browsers may eventually drop support for XSLT - supporting features cost money

	▲	MrVandemar 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's not a great analogy. Firefox once supported RSS feeds as live bookmarks and dropped it, and not because people didn't use it, because people did use it and bemoaned its loss for years afterwards.