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

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wellington was the first city to have a web site as I recall.

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 2:02 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 12/7/2022 10:50 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> > I recall that I demonstrated the Web in the early 90s to everyone I
> > could accost at Oracle, from the receptionist to the Chairman of the
> > Board.   They all "got it" and thought it was promising even if there
> > was little content online at the time.
>
> In 1990, I did a half-day class about Internet tech, as part of a
> week-long CMU class for some AT&T folk. I included a gopher demo, to get
> some class participation, starting with a master page that listed areas
> of the globe.
>
> The class choices eventually got us down to Wellington, New Zealand.
>
> Listed there was the Wellington Town Council and I saw an entry for the
> Town Council minutes.  For the previous week.  Which we were looking at
> from Pittsburgh.
>
> That's the first time I finally understood what globalized use of the
> net was going to look like.
>
> d/
>
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