[BALUG-Talk] Market research on Gopher

[Bill Ward]

Well, I was in college at the time and didn't really have a lot of use
for it.  I could use it to locate and download some open source
software (though we didn't call it that then) but since I didn't
manage any systems I didn't have much cause to do so.  I didn't do
"scientific computing" (I'm still not quite sure what that means) then
- I wrote code.  By the time I graduated, NCSA Mosaic was available, I
think.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, John Mark Walker <johnmark at johnmark.org> wrote:
> 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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