25 Oct
2004
25 Oct
'04
11:14 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 16:45 -0700, Tom Jennings wrote:
It's got to be 10 years old now, right?
Yep.
gopherspace was wonderful, a brilliant use of the
internet
besides email. Too bad for gopher that http was better.
Ok, vague memories here. I remember using gopher circa 1993 and also
something called Archie. Was Archie just a name for specific gopher
service, or a totally different animal?
Anyone on this list still run one?
No, but I'll have to add it to the list of information systems to run at
the museum one day.
What's the best client to use?
I don't know what the choice is. I would have been using a client on a
machine running SunOS way back when and just remember starting it with
'gopher' from the shell :-) Maybe SunOS shipped with its own client.
Actually I do remember using gopher and ftp a lot for information and
file access, then this new-fangled www came along and I just thought
'big deal' :-)
cheers
Jules