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I think the shift from WAIS, Archie and Veronica resulted from the idea of a web site, complete with rendering, catching on. People didn't want a universal dire
by taylodl 4y ago
I think the shift from WAIS, Archie and Veronica resulted from the idea of a web site, complete with rendering, catching on. People didn't want a universal directory of files. I remember navigating Gopher felt very similar to navigating the old dial-up BBS. Whereas WWW connected the entire web together into a singular entity replete with rendering. I recall that being the primary reason WWW won.
- cestith 4y agoI'm not sure it was so much the web, which with Lynx, Links, w3m, or some others looked a lot like Gopher. I think it was that the early graphical browsers (Mosaic and Netscape for example) embedded the linked graphics into HTML documents over HTTP but didn't do the same for other document formats on other protocols. That is, the presentation is what mattered more than the underlying platform being presented.