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History of Gopher

posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 27 2018, @08:22AM   
from the insert-oblig-caddyshack-reference dept.

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For many people, the world wide web is synonymous with the Internet. While the HTTP protocol dominates the modern Internet, many protocols obsolete, obscure and well known make up the Internet.

One of the more stubborn protocols is Gopher. Introduced in 1991 (the same year as HTTP), Gopher, like the web, is document-centric.

By about 1990, information on the Internet was expanding rapidly enough that it needed more organization and a better search capability. In 1991 researchers at the University of Minnesota developed the Gopher protocol in an attempt to provide some of that organization. Gopher provides a hierarchical text-based menu system to organize the contents of a data repository (which eventually came to be called "gopherholes").

https://prgmr.com/blog/gopher/2018/08/23/gopher.html

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• Re:Gopher gateway Re:Gopher gateway (Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Monday August 27 2018, @12:32PM (1 child)

  by Arik (4543) on Monday August 27 2018, @12:32PM (#726871) Journal

  "Should SN not have a http-to-gopher-gateway? Could be a fun experiment to run news on gopher."
  
  So did you mean an nntp-to-gopher gateway then?
  
  Might need to get the nntp part working first.
  
  

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• Re:Gopher gateway (Score: 5, Touché) by RamiK on Monday August 27 2018, @02:19PM

  by RamiK (1813) on Monday August 27 2018, @02:19PM (#726905)

  Asked and answered. [soylentnews.org]

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