Re: April Fools’ Day
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:01:03 +0200
Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> wrote:
> * Jacob Head <gopher@jacob-head.com> [190402 13:50]:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > In case anyone else hasn’t seen it, Devuan replaced its homepage with
> > the following yesterday:
> >
> > <https://www.devuan.org/pwned.html>
> >
> > “THE WEB SUCKS -- JAVASCRIPT SUCKS -- BROWSERS SUCK
> > GOPHER IS THE WAY -- GOPHER IS THE FUTURE“
> >
> > There’s some discussion here, some of which is curiously po-faced:
> >
> > <https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/01/1048230>
> >
> > although I wonder how many people have a gopher client installed since I
> > can’t see anyone spotting that they failed to replicate their html in
> > plain text:
> >
> > <gopher://devuan.org/1/pwned.htm>
> >
The joke? continues. I used lynx to go to gopher;//www.devuan.org/pwned.html and got "don't waste your time you moron! Just go to gopher://devuan.org"; which, when I did so, turns out to be full Devuan news feed. I'm impressed!
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