[HN Gopher] The Internet Gopher from Minnesota
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The Internet Gopher from Minnesota
Author : rbanffy
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-11-11 11:27 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.abortretry.fail)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.abortretry.fail)
| jhbadger wrote:
| Interesting that the article brings up the original 1990s
| GopherCons (which were conferences for discussing the Gopher
| protocol). I'm mildly annoyed that the Go programming community
| (which uses a gopher as a mascot) has reused the name for their
| conventions, but I guess it's been unused for a while.
| halestock wrote:
| They also took the name of a programming language that predated
| Google's go as well.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
| jandrese wrote:
| It seems to me that Gopher just failed to keep up with the times.
| Embedding images into the page was a killer feature for HTML and
| Gopher was still doggedly text based because they were still
| supporting the VT100 users that had been the core userbase. Plus
| the web went on to support text formatting, tables, and even
| eventually layout.
|
| The article isn't entirely correct about the early web being
| completely free. Netscape was not free software, at least on
| paper. In practice they didn't try to stop people from spreading
| it far and wide and I think the sales were somewhat modest
| despite being the core element of a technological revolution.
| Also, I guess NCSA Mosiac was technically around, but it lacked
| enough features to make it a second class citizen compared to
| Netscape Navigator.
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