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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary. The University of Minnesota owned the code and proposed to charge server owners for using it. Meanwhile Sir Tim over at CERN was handing out the original httpd under an MIT-style license.

There was some early work supporting things like forms and search on Gopher. But it was pretty much abandoned as soon as WWW started catching on.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

University of Minnesota, my dude...software named for their mascot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

[–] raoulraoul@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary

That may be so but gopher was never any fun in comparison to www

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, it was - before we had the WWW. I remember the day when a co-student told me to have a look at this new web thingy, "like gopher, but with hypertext!".