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       TACKER:  agk (Anna)
       SUBJECT: .. How you were using the Internet in the 90's?
       DATE:    24-Jan-22 04:24:40
       HOST:    sdf
       
       I have been reading all your investigatory articles about gopher, and have 
       followed some of the links. The depth and persistence of your research is 
       great, I've learned from you, and your writing style is clear, complete, 
       open, and engaging. Glad to see you on bboard!
       
       I've kept a gopher diary for the last year, and some reference materials on 
       my gopher hole. What I enjoy about gopher and gemini today is the social 
       diaries and phlogs, and the convenient aggregators. This is probably the 
       projection of 21st-century internet habits into plaintext. In the '90s this 
       social stuff would be on usenet or email lists.
       
       I briefly saw gopher circa 1994, I think, on a green-on-black terminal in 
       the school library, as a research tool. It is a front-end to FTP that 
       allows imposing a web structure on hierarchical filesystems networked 
       across great distances, designed by librarians. 
       
       I never saw the humor, enthusiast, etc content from the (later) '90s you 
       link to back then. I saw that type of material in 'zines at the time. Other 
       people saw it on BBSs, usenet, and email lists. My understanding of gopher 
       was it was like an encyclopedia, or a card catalog linked directly to 
       library materials.
       
       Anna
       
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       SUBJECT: .. How you were using the Internet in the 90's?
       DATE:    24-Jan-22 04:24:40
       HOST:    sdf
       
       I have been reading all your investigatory articles about gopher, and have 
       followed some of the links. The depth and persistence of your research is 
       great, I've learned from you, and your writing style is clear, complete, 
       open, and engaging. Glad to see you on bboard!
       
       I've kept a gopher diary for the last year, and some reference materials on 
       my gopher hole. What I enjoy about gopher and gemini today is the social 
       diaries and phlogs, and the convenient aggregators. This is probably the 
       projection of 21st-century internet habits into plaintext. In the '90s this 
       social stuff would be on usenet or email lists.
       
       I briefly saw gopher circa 1994, I think, on a green-on-black terminal in 
       the school library, as a research tool. It is a front-end to FTP that 
       allows imposing a web structure on hierarchical filesystems networked 
       across great distances, designed by librarians. 
       
       I never saw the humor, enthusiast, etc content from the (later) '90s you 
       link to back then. I saw that type of material in 'zines at the time. Other 
       people saw it on BBSs, usenet, and email lists. My understanding of gopher 
       was it was like an encyclopedia, or a card catalog linked directly to 
       library materials.
       
       Anna
       
       
       
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