Re: UKNM: and while I'm being nostalgic...

[Sajid Mohammed]

---Steve Bowbrick <

stevewebmedia [dot] com

> wrote:

>

> gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu:70/11/fun/Movies

> 

> Check out this live, working gopher site


This takes me back...I knew something was afoot when I went to a

Gopher site and was politely informed that the Gopher service was

ending due to increased user demand for the World Wide Web...


As for your Sliders-style gedankenexperiment, I vaguely remember

TurboGopher on the Mac which was a stab at a friendlier interface and

I'm sure Gopher would have been retro-fitted with hypertext and inline

images eventually. To paraphrase Charles Fort, it steam engines when

it's steam engine time (Fort was referring to the fact that several

inventors developed steam engines independently of James Watt).


SM

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