Gopher, 25 years on. Long, fun read.

lindner

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Twenty-five years ago, a small band of programmers from the University of Minnesota ruled the internet.

And then they didn’t.

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Also HN discussion here:

Hahaha I saw gopher and my first thought was hey I wonder if Paul has readnthis.... and then saw who posted

Hehe i had no idea you had done gopher prior to google!! Super cool paul!

So sad that UMinn wanted to own it all. Then HTTP came along and no one owned that. :-)

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