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The Return of Gopher: Pre-web hypertext service is still around

2022-05-232022-05-23 Danie

Gopher is a point-and-click internet protocol that predates Tim Berners-Lee’s WorldWideWeb. Although the web has almost totally replaced it, Gopherspace still exists. The snag is that, just as modern web browsers are removing FTP support, […]

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The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular Arpanet, but BBSs were just as important, if not more

2022-05-182022-05-18 Danie

The modem world refuses to be a single, stable object of analysis. In life and in memory, it was multiple, different, conflicting networks at the same time. This complexity was written into the architecture of […]

Leave a commentBlog#bbs, #bulletinboard, #retro, #technology
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