drgo on Nostr: From the article: “By failing to bring developers under its fold, the Gopher ...

From the article: “By failing to bring developers under its fold, the Gopher project fell victim to what is often referred to as forking, i.e. splintering into many options instead of settling on one standard approach. Forking can be effective, but only after enough support has been created that the forked technology can stand on its own, without the help of those working on the technology from which it forked. Netscape is a significant case of later breaking from standards leading to forking, in the form of HTML extensions. [Newman] Microsoft's Internet Explorer also jumped in with its own nonstandard extensions. But this happened after the Web had already gained enough inertia to have a strong user and developer base.”