-=> On 10-06-19 08:03, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-

 pF> Gopher, Archie, Veronica - they were the tools of the internet up until
 pF> the web took over. Archie was a list of files on Gopher sites, and
 pF> Veronica was a list of the menus, so you could search across all of
 pF> gopherspace. Coming from a BBS and shell account background, it was
 pF> like a text-based web.

Yes, and you could search with Veronica, then jump from gopher to gopher in
ways not too dissimilar to the web, but menu based, rather than hyperlinked.  I
remember experiencing hyperlinks on the web for the first time (using Lynx),
after much experience with Veronica and Gopher and thinking "This is really
cool". :)


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