Wow, either I've forgotten this existed, or had no clue, I was around for this era, and I remember Veronica, Archie, WAIS, Gopher, etc, but never recall reading

Wow, either I've forgotten this existed, or had no clue, I was around for this era, and I remember Veronica, Archie, WAIS, Gopher, etc, but never recall reading about a Dict protocol, nice find!