[ih] "The Internet runs on Proposed Standards"

[Dave Crocker]

On 12/6/2022 4:19 PM, Grant Taylor via Internet-history wrote:
> On 12/5/22 10:39 AM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
>> Back then, Gopher was much easier to get a (text) page up and 
>> available. And there were lots of existing text documents.
> I question the veracity of that.  But I have no first hand experience 
> hosting Gopher.
>> The Web had a much richer presentation appearance but existing 
>> documents needed to be translated into html.
> The number of PDFs, PS, JPG, GIF, et al. files that I've downloaded 
> beg to differ with the need to be translated into HTML.


My p[osting was about the usage experience for the web and for gopher, 
in the early days of the web.

It wasn't about theory and it wasn't about today.

d/


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Dave Crocker
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