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Re:Gen X emerging from pandemic with firmer grip on America'... by millipedegears on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:31PM (#26625294)
Those were heady days. Using news groups before everything in them morphed into German pornography. The glory days of Gopher. We had the foresight to write the whole thing in C; paving the way for many future generations to work on endlessly patching it.
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Re:Gen X emerging from pandemic with firmer grip on America'... by adolph on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:06PM (#26625844)
And Archie (for FTP) and Veronica (for Gopher)! It all seemed so difficult at the time but I remember it so fondly now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine)

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