[LINK] Fwd: The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol | MinnPost

[Roger Clarke]

At 19:42 +1000 19/8/16, Antony Barry wrote:
>https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol
>
>They were magic times. It started with archie. Who remember archie now?

Here's a short segment on file-discovery precursors to the Web: 
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzWH.html#FD

In sequence:
Concordances, ICL Status, IBM STAIRS, Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS.

Followed by the tsunami.


(That paper on 'Morning dew on the Web in Australia: 1992-1995' has 
actually accumulated a whole 1 Google citation, 3 years after 
publication.  Which is actually 1 more than I expected.  You don't 
write histories of things for the warm feeling of being read!).


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