[ih] anybody know the history of the group at NCSA that developed Mosaic & HTTPd?

[Dave Crocker]

On 3/11/2018 4:02 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:
> But when the idea migrated elsewhere, starting probably with Mosaic, it
> somehow lost the "producer" focus and became a mechanism primarily for
> consuming material that was prepared in some 'offline' manner.


Remember that for a time, gopher was very stiff competition for the web.

Poor IPR and management policies by one side or the other, gopher had 
the major advantage of being usable with existing txt documents while 
the early web /required/ html and the tools for producing them were few 
and poor.  That gave gopher a much larger cache of documents to share. 
Initially.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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