USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix - eviltoast
  • raoulraoul@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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
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      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!”.