[BALUG-Talk] Market research on Gopher

[John Mark Walker]

I have a much different recollection of Gopher. For scientific computing, it
was Gopher and FTP. Gopher was a great way to access documents and software
downloads. Our university Gopher system was really great.

I don't know if the demise of Gopher was due to the software being difficult
to manage or because it was proprietary and more expensive. Whatever the
case, I thought it was a useful thing to have at the time. However, I can't
remember what it could do that couldn't be done over HTTP or FTP.

-JM


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:

> As I recall Gopher wasn't really around very long before we started
> seeing the Web replace it.  I never really used it much and don't
> remember much about it.  I think of it as basically just being a
> listing of FTP sites, and the Yahoo! Directory was its most direct
> replacement.
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Duke Dougal <dukedougal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > "We" are a startup company in Australia that has built this
> www.sema5.com
> >
> > Beta testers keep telling us that we have built something that looks like
> > Gopher so I've done some research on Gopher and now I'm asking what
> people
> > think of Gopher and if they remember it with positive or negative
> thoughts.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Rick Moen:
> >> > Quoting Duke Dougal (dukedougal at gmail.com):
> >> > > We're doing some market research on attitudes to Gopher.
> >> >
> >> > Who are "we", for starters?
> >>
> >> Seconded.
> >>
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