It started with Gopher, IIRC: "Surf the Internet." I recall having a GIF of the gopher mascot with those words.[0] It was sometime between 1992 and 1995; I'm fa

It started with Gopher, IIRC: "Surf the Internet." I recall having a GIF of the gopher mascot with those words.[0] It was sometime between 1992 and 1995; I'm fairly sure it was before Netscape. The Jargon File[1] doesn't mention Gopher, specifically, but 1995 is just after Netscape was released. [0] This PDF of an article by P. Frana (p.31) is the only reference I can find to this image[2] I clearly remember. https://instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/account_17700000000000001/attachments/869722/Frana%202004%20Before%20the%20Web%20There%20Was%20Gopher.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJFNFXH2V2O7RPCAA&Expires=1468822467&Signature=velQlCiqpRa6IpXii5Z5sQbJON4%3D&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%22Frana%202004%20Before%20the%20Web%20There%20Was%20Gopher.pdf%22%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27Frana%25202004%2520Before%2520the%2520Web%2520There%2520Was%2520Gopher.pdf https://instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/account_1770000... [1] http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/surf.html http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/surf.html [2] https://imgur.com/EHYdgMG https://imgur.com/EHYdgMG