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Ah, the sweet memories from CORBA, Usenet, Token Ring, Gopher, PHIGS, Taligent....

Stardards are only relevant as long as the industry cares to use them.

I can use all of those today or develop a new implementation if I want.

Sure you can, I doubt anyone would care, though.

I actually developed and deployed an instance of a new GOPHER server recently. I was surprised to see requests in its access logs.