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overthemoon | 2 years ago

The "random" button sent me on an hour long rabbit hole and I learned about (among other things) the gopher protocol. A+, would lose that time again.

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gerdesj|2 years ago

My first experience of the internet was telnet from Win 3 box to a X.25 PAD and then telnet to something JANET (UK) then something US based (NSF I think) and fire up Gopher or WAIS.

Later my boss asked me to look at this web thing that he had heard about. I fired up telnet and eventually found an on ramp to CERN. To me it looked rather like everything else but I'm not exactly a rocket scientist!

https://www.w3.org/History/1992/WWW/FAQ/WAISandGopher.html