[ih] Copy of first web page discovered
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Fri May 31 06:04:00 PDT 2013
Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> Anonymous FTP was really the first network-wide standard mechanism for
> publishing and obtaining stray documents around the net.
>
> Gopher was the first globally "integrated" document accessing
> mechanism and was widely used by 1990.
And before gopher there were several CWISs (Campus Wide Information
System) varients - Cornell's CUINFO, MIT Techninfo, Berkely Infocal
(Z39.50 based, if I recall), a few others. All sort of proto-gophers
if you will.
Miles Fidelman
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