Shawki Sukkar
@shawki
https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm
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Shawki Sukkar
@shawki
https://i.imgur.com/v9QETJS.png
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Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
Gopher did succeed, we fully supported it in Mosaic. :-)
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Marc Andreessen
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More fundamentally, Gopher was a hierarchy (tree) of information, whereas the web was freeform pages with arbitrary links. Users preferred the latter.
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neha
@nehan
I always thought Gopher's downfall was because University of Minnesota started asking for licensing fees, while the web was free? https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol/ https://i.imgur.com/xKqU7e7.png
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