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| From | Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: [Link Posting] History of Gopher |
| Date | 2018-08-27 22:54 +0000 |
| Organization | Some absurd concept |
| Message-ID | <eli$1808271854@qaz.wtf> (permalink) |
| References | <rKXq8K/ojQTpkYaO/J0IQVbw@dont-email.me> |
In comp.misc, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote: > <URL:https://prgmr.com/blog/gopher/2018/08/23/gopher.html> > The text below is a quotation from the URL above: >> Soon after, the search capability came in the form of a new search >> engine called Veronica. It was a whimsical time on the net, and geeks >> still ruled most of it, so not only was the name taken from Archie >> comics, it was soon turned into a backronym as "Very Easy >> Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives". Veronica was >> something of a brute-force approach. It used a dynamically updated >> database of every file and every hierarchy on every Gopher server on the >> internet. The missing bit there is "Veronica" was chosen as a reference to Archie comics because "Archie" was already in use as the name of a search engine for FTP sites. (How do you use a search engine for FTP sites? Email. You sent a query by email and you got a result sometime later in a response email.) If you want to go-fer something, lynx still supports the protocol. Get started with: lynx gopher://gopherproject.org It's a strightforward UI for anyone who has used lynx before. Elijah ------ or proxied to https at https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopherproject.org/
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