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       Thread[.post]: 36.9
       TACKER:  agk (Anna)
       SUBJECT: .. How you were using the Internet in the 90's?
       DATE:    27-Jan-22 19:03:19
       HOST:    sdf
       
       We talked about this on openvoip toward the end of the show on 26 or 25 
       Jan. You can probably listen at the anonradio show archives.
       
       Wayne was administering a BBS when gopher was in its growth phase, so kind 
       of missed it. By the time he got interested in browsing linked documents 
       via internet, http was ascendent.
       
       Christina's primary internet social world was MOOs and MUSHs. She remembers 
       gopher had the library vibe you noted, downloading software via FTP, 
       content reposted from USENET.
       
       Maybe gopher acquired social media vibe in wake of atrophying pre-http 
       "social media" like BBSs, USENET, and MOOs. It seems from your research 
       gopher diaries predate the word phlog (backformed from weblog to 
       gopherlog).
       
       Anna
       
       
       
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