Is anyone here old enough to remember the "Gopher" protocol (created by the University of Minnesota in 1991 by Mark P. McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, and Bob Alberti)?
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The Gopher protocol had a more rigid document structure compared to HTML / WWW. Also, fear of licensing fees pushed people away from it and towards WWW in the early 90's.
Today there are approximately ~400 Gopher sites remaining.
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yes gopher was still on the school computers in Minnesota but it was pretty much almost defunct
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Jason mate, I'm old enough to remember when "protocols" only meant something employed by diplomats ...
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