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The jokey scenario that got cut off #gopher .

At gophercon 1993, there was disagreement about whether the gopher should support commercial/business/advertising use, because in 1993 the internet was predominantly academic exchanges and there was concern that commercialising the gopher might ruin the internet.

This is somewhat tied up with gopher+, a planned extension to gopher (which is rfc1436) in which gopher items could provide more metadata.

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