Hmm, I was just thinking about a return to gopher, in the past couple of years.  Guess I wasn&#x27;t the only one.<p>I&#x27;ve also been thinking about NNTP.  Usenet never went away, entirely, but maybe it will be having a little renaissance, as well.  Old-school distributed, independent networking.  And again, where content rules over graphic design.<p>P.S.  That second part is NOT a poke at MetaFilter, which I rather like -- although, I guess I&#x27;ve been away from it for a while, now.<p>But, I&#x27;m interested in communities that are orthogonal to any one particular platform, or perhaps I should say, host.  Among other things.