[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 174, Issue 41

[Adam Todd]

At 01:14 PM 25/05/2007, Stewart Fist wrote:
>Jan enthuses:
> >
> > Thanks for the memories. I remember how excited I was with WAIS and
> > gopher. Archie was a bit flat if the files weren't grouped. But WAIS
> > and Gopher usually had a meaningful structure that was excellent. I
> > spent time with our biggest boss showing him how to use them in 
> the early 90s.
>
>
>When I was a boy, we were so poor we didn't have WAIS, Archie and Gopher ...
>only Dialog and Orbit.

Is the "Orb" feature being pushed to mobile phone users a derivative 
of this "Orbit" you mention.  (I'm guessing no.)

And what is/was Orbit?  I've never heard of it!