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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fubo@lemmy.world 1 year agoGopher 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.
raoulraoul@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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!”.
guyrocket@kbin.social 1 year ago
University of Minnesota, my dude...software named for their mascot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)