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Gopher

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IBM Gopher

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.

OS/2 Gopher software

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Authors

  • Mark McCahill
  • Farhad Anklesaria