Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (1999)

Re:Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher ... by hnzix on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:20PM (#23266183)

In the late 90s Oz universities generally gave their students email via Pine plus a 10mb web folder as standard. Many STEM students made random websites about their hobbies or poetry or whatever. It was like a proto Geocities.

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Re:Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher ... by throwphoton on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:22PM (#23267750)

And once you did that, your content was on the "World Wide Web", not just some "Gopher server". The WWW name made the venue sound more intriguing.

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Re:Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher ... by akie on Friday May 22, 2020 @04:13AM (#23269750)

Oh god, pine - I completely forgot about that. Thank you for bringing it up!

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Re:Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher ... by timClicks on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:19PM (#23268360)

I was pretty jealous of that over here in NZ.

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