[ih] Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

[Brian E Carpenter]

Larry, I agree that <IMG/> made a big difference but surely it was <POST/>
that really made HTML/HTTP different?

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian

On 29-Apr-26 09:59, Larry Masinter via Internet-history wrote:
>> Gopher was (is?) a similar cautionary tale. It was a good design and
>> although it was a lot less flexible than the web, it was also a lot
>> easier to implement and loaded the servers less.
> 
> http 0.9 was essentially gopher: open a connection, GET the document in one
> exchange, close the connection. One transaction per document/directory
> list.  The complexity came from using multiple connections for a single
> document with many embedded images rather than portable compound document
> formats, moving the format complexity into the protocol.
> 
> As. a side note, adding  M. McCahill, University of Minnesota, (RFC 1436)
> as an editor of RFC 1738 (URL) helped show the gopher community how to
> preserve their investment in gopher servers while migrating to the web.