[ale] gopher

[Larry Johnson]

My great notable bad prediction of all time involved gopher.  At about
the time the Mosaic web browser became widely available a co-worker
approached me and said something to the effect of "You've gotta see
this ... documents ... graphics ... etc!!!".  I took a look and said
something to the effect of "I think I'll keep using veronica, archie,
and the gopher system.  This World Wide Web thing loads too slowly and
I don't really think it's going to go anywhere".

Larry

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> wow,
> back in the early 90's I used to bypass the AT&T web block by using gopher ..
> now:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/29/2141254/All-of-Gopherspace-Available-For-Download?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:
> +Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)
>
> An anonymous reader writes
> "Cory Doctorow tells us that '[i]n 2007, John Goerzen scraped every gopher
> site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to the Web;
> I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000
> documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he's making the
> entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed data is only
> 15GB. Wanna host the entire history of a medium? Here's your chance!' Get
> yourself a piece of pre-Internet history (torrent)."
>
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