[BALUG-Talk] Market research on Gopher

[Dan Lyke]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:27:11 +0100
Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:
> See, I encountered gopher before the Web.  For me it was a somewhat
> familiar UI because I had used menu-based BBSes a fair bit (though I
> was more fond of Citadels).  It was still a bit frustrating and I
> tended to just use archie and ftp to find things instead.

Actually, I did too, but I'd left college before they got a TCP/IP
feed, so only via friends who said "hey, can you help me figure this
out?" and by the time I started an ISP to get on the web Mosaic was
quickly taking market share. (Experimental KA9Q setups with friends in
the BBS scene don't really count).

However, I do remember that there was a lot of good information out
there that was only on Gopher, and that the lack of pictures served as a
filter to make the quality of content on Gopher better.

But then I still fire up Lynx regularly...

Dan
("Hey you kids, get offa my lawn...")