[ih] "The Internet runs on Proposed Standards"

[Dave Crocker]

On 12/5/2022 9:28 AM, Larry Masinter wrote:
> I think the motivation to surpass Gopher traffic compared to HTTP (I 
> remember a graph showing the relative usage) was more important than 
> the abstract discussion about two-way linlks/
> HTTP 0.9 was little more than Gopher. Getting Mark McCayhill to let 
> his name be used on the URL spec because it included his writeup of 
> "gopher:" was important to show people that www subsumed gopher.

Back then, Gopher was much easier to get a (text) page up and available. 
And there were lots of existing text documents.

The Web had a much richer presentation appearance but existing documents 
needed to be translated into html.


d/

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Dave Crocker
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