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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I can remember the name. It makes me think of Archie and Veronica too.
HTML came and changed everything. I was just starting to poke around there.
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