[ih] more gopher baroque, "The Internet runs on Proposed Standards"

[Miles Fidelman]

At The Center for Civic Networking, circa 1992, the first batch of stuff 
we put on the net was behind a gopher server.  Worked like a charm.

Miles Fidelman

John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
> It appears that Grant Taylor via Internet-history <internet-history at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net> said:
>> 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.
> >From personal experience I can confirm that it was true. What you
> could put on the page was quite limited, but even so at the time it
> was pretty exciting to put together a menu page that pointed to
> resources on six computers on three continents.
>
>>> 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.
> Gopher was just a bunch of menus and the later Gopher+ had a way to
> say that the thing a menu entry pointed to was a picture or whatever.
> Recall that the early WWW only had text links. In-line images were
> Netscape's innovation.
>
> R's,
> John


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