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Gopher: Underground Technology
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| 12 april 2004
| Lore Sjöberg
Posted on 04/21/2004 5:48:54 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Back in 1992, when "yahoo" was something cowboys yelled and "ebay" was just pig Latin, the University of Minnesota developed a new way of looking at data on the Internet. Their protocol, called "gopher" after the UMN mascot, allowed archivists to present the mishmash of information in a standard format, and enabled readers to navigate documents on a world of servers using a simple visual interface.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: gopher; internet; search; techindex
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To: stainlessbanner
Ya, I remember gopher servers. The first internet search engine I used were not Yahoo!, google, or altavista. It was Archie. You could do interesting things with Archie, but it was kind of basic as I recall. I eventually found Veronica servers to be more capable in locating what I wanted to find. The net was less crowded back then, and spam wasn't quite the issue it is today, but information on the net was of higher quality IMO.
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:24:38 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(The Great Experiment is over.)
To: stainlessbanner
Whoa! I remember Gopher, and Archie, wow, times change very quickly online..
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:22:05 AM PDT
by
Paradox
(Occam was probably right.)
To: zeugma; Paradox
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