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A hypertext document system and associated protocols for displaying, serving and searching such document on the Internet. Although it was introduced later than the [[WWW]] system Gopher was from 1992 and well into 94 much more popular than the web, it was more advanced at the time since it had built in support for structured documents and searching giving rise to tools such as the VERONICA automatic Gopher search system. Interest in Gopher waned dramatically after the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities announced that they would demand license fees for the technology and by mid 1995 Gopher had mostly disappeared. | A hypertext document system and associated protocols for displaying, serving and searching such document on the Internet. Although it was introduced into the wild a little bit later than the [[WWW]] system, Gopher was from 1992 and well into 94 much more popular than the web, it was more advanced at the time since it had built in support for structured documents and searching giving rise to tools such as the VERONICA automatic Gopher search system. Interest in Gopher waned dramatically after the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities announced that they would demand license fees for the technology and by mid 1995 Gopher had mostly disappeared. | ||
====Background and history== | |||
Initially developed by Farhad Anklesaria as simplification of '''Campus-Wide Information System''' (CWIS), a proposed University wide structured information system for the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. | |||
==OS/2 Gopher software== | ==OS/2 Gopher software== | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* [https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol] | * [https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol] | ||
: Please note that while the article is fairly well written and is a good overview it contains a number of factually incorrect and misleading statements. | |||
==Authors== | ==Authors== | ||
* Mark McCahill | * Mark McCahill | ||
* Farhad Anklesaria | * Farhad Anklesaria | ||
* David Johnson | |||
* Bob Alberti | |||
* Paul Lindner | |||
[[Category:Networking]] | [[Category:Networking]] | ||
[[Category:Gopher]] | [[Category:Gopher]] | ||
Revision as of 12:17, 14 August 2016
A hypertext document system and associated protocols for displaying, serving and searching such document on the Internet. Although it was introduced into the wild a little bit later than the WWW system, Gopher was from 1992 and well into 94 much more popular than the web, it was more advanced at the time since it had built in support for structured documents and searching giving rise to tools such as the VERONICA automatic Gopher search system. Interest in Gopher waned dramatically after the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities announced that they would demand license fees for the technology and by mid 1995 Gopher had mostly disappeared.
==Background and history
Initially developed by Farhad Anklesaria as simplification of Campus-Wide Information System (CWIS), a proposed University wide structured information system for the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.
OS/2 Gopher software
- GoServe - Gopher/WWW server
- IBM Gopher - Client
- Netsuite - Client
- OS/2 Gopher - Client
Links
- Please note that while the article is fairly well written and is a good overview it contains a number of factually incorrect and misleading statements.
Authors
- Mark McCahill
- Farhad Anklesaria
- David Johnson
- Bob Alberti
- Paul Lindner