At 19:42 +1000 19/8/16, Antony Barry wrote:
https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol
They were magic times. It started with archie. Who remember archie now?
Here's a short segment on file-discovery precursors to the Web:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzWH.html#FD
In sequence:
Concordances, ICL Status, IBM STAIRS, Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS.
Followed by the tsunami.
(That paper on 'Morning dew on the Web in Australia: 1992-1995' has
actually accumulated a whole 1 Google citation, 3 years after
publication. Which is actually 1 more than I expected. You don't
write histories of things for the warm feeling of being read!).
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Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/
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Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W.
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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