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The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (www.minnpost.com)

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Great article on the Gopher Protocol from a few years back.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just a hair too young to have dealt with gopher in any meaningful way, I went from bbs days to the web. The changes happened while I was in the military and I heard people talk about the web. Thought it was just bbs with some new terms. Played with gopher and Archie, Jughead, and Veronica after I got far enough in to understand the net just to see what else existed. Really cool to get some historical context on this stuff.