Subj : Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : Vk3jed
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Dec 31 2021 14:52:56

  Re: Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
  By: Vk3jed to GeekWisdom on Fri Dec 31 2021 09:26 pm

 > -=> On 12-31-21 07:37, GeekWisdom wrote to Vk3jed <=-
 > 
 >  Vk> Yeah I'm an old geek.  My first experinece of web browsing was running Lynx on
 >  Vk> remote Unix server (BSDi, I think) in glorious text, and any downloads, I had 
 >  Vk> first download to the ISP's server, then use "sz"
 >  Vk> to transfer it to my PC. )
 > 
 >  Ge> Before lynx there was gopher!. Then when WWW game in everyone starting changin
 >  Ge> their gopherspace to say
 >  Ge> 'see our WWW site at...'
 > 
 > I loved gopher back in the day!  Worked really well.
 > 
 > 
 > ... Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
 > === MultiMail/Win v0.52

It still does.

Nowadays they are trying to replace it with Gemini. Maybe there is some merit to that.
I have never tried it myself.

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