[BALUG-Talk] Market research on Gopher

[Bill Ward]

Yeah, Lynx did come before Mosaic in my world too, come to think of it.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ben Newman <ben at ultraswank.com> wrote:
> I used it quite a bit in college and remember it fondly, but HTML just
> killed it both on the ease of publishing and use.   I don't think I
> ever used it again when Lynx got installed on our servers.
> For me the evolution of mid 90s era internet document handling goes
> something like this:  Gopher > Lynx > Mosaic > Mozilla
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:
>> 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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