<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Joly MacFie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" target="_blank">joly@punkcast.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">The Rise and Fall of the <span class="gmail-il">Gopher</span> Protocol<br>
By Tim Gihring<br>
Aug 11 2016<br>
<<a href="https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.minnpost.com/busi<wbr>ness/2016/08/rise-and-fall-<wbr><span class="gmail-il">gopher</span>-protocol</a>><br>
</div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I was alerted to another article on same topic, in Chronicle of Higher Ed(ucation) - <br><br><br>How Gopher Nearly Won the Internet<br>By Scott Carlson / September 05, 2016 <br>Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today <a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Gopher-Nearly-Won-the/237682">http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Gopher-Nearly-Won-the/237682</a> <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">paywall evasion via DuckDuckGo <br><a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Gopher-Nearly-Won-the/237682/?key=QlhJoKFWcO5rwD0jbeGuGHG0quJwz0-qB-sKn4sAIVw5FxVZ4xiftQodV_XioTqbS1oteTk0dk85RFZCYUtOOGsxSTZMaXZVdHo2Z3RRZkVUTGZqZkdUNGc4bw">http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Gopher-Nearly-Won-the/237682/?key=QlhJoKFWcO5rwD0jbeGuGHG0quJwz0-qB-sKn4sAIVw5FxVZ4xiftQodV_XioTqbS1oteTk0dk85RFZCYUtOOGsxSTZMaXZVdHo2Z3RRZkVUTGZqZkdUNGc4bw</a> </div><br><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Provocative quote in big letters: “If it weren't for Gopher, the web probably would have died.” </div><br clear="all"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Interesting Photo captions:<br>"'We were a skunk-works project.' says Mark McCahill, who helped develop Gopher at the U. of Minnesota."<br>"The Gopher team posed for an alumni-magazine spread in 1994. By the end
of that year, Gopher's internet dominance was over. Clockwise from left:
Farad Anklesaria, David Johnson, Paul Lindner, Mark McCahill, and Bob
Alberti." </div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">"Mark McCahill, now at Duke U., [...] Looking at Gopher recently reminded him of what the internet used
to be like, he said, 'when there wasn't an ad on everything you went
to.'" </div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[ I see the Chronicle has uncritically accepted AP's dictum of lowercase Internet. Humbug. ]</div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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