14 Jan
2005
14 Jan
'05
4:47 p.m.
On Jan 14, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Not that early. RFC 1436 originally appeared in 1991, so I wouldn't
think
much earlier than 1990.
Nah... original discussions about WWW/HTTP were in the '89/90 timeframe
(I'd have to check the exact dates), and gopher existed then, and
indeed, if gopher development had changed course just a little, it
might have killed the WWW before it even got started (assuming WWW
means HTTP+HTML).
The first RFC for HTTP didn't appear until it'd been around for about 6
years...
I also noticed that my previous posting about MacTCP
and Gopher would
have been incorrect, since Gopher servers didn't appear til '91 or
so.
Gopher preceded HTTP by a bit... probably appeared in '88/89?