Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary. The University of Michigan owned the code and proposed to charge server owners for using it. Meanwhile Sir Tim over at CERN was handing out the original httpd under an MIT-style license.

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  • guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    University of Minnesota, my dude...software named for their mascot.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

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  • raoulraoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary

    That may be so but gopher was never any fun in comparison to www

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, it was - before we had the WWW. I remember the day when a co-student told me to have a look at this new web thingy, “like gopher, but with hypertext!”.

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