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Gopher was open: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436 It just sucked compared to HTTP.
by mcantelon 15y ago
Gopher was open:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436
It just sucked compared to HTTP.
- pauljburke 15y agoI remember being shown mosaic on the day it went into limited academic beta and (after half an hour or so) saying "It's pretty and all but I can't see how it's ever going to replace gopher"... the person I said it to still won't let me forget that. However, at the time, I had a point. Not always easy to see that with perfect hindsight.
- sireat 15y agoI was the same way when I was shown Mosaic, neat, but what is the point of it? At the time I was perfectly happy with the following text based applications: email,newsgroups,MUDs,ftp.