ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoUSENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenixwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square220linkfedilinkarrow-up1529arrow-down113 cross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.social
arrow-up1516arrow-down1external-linkUSENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenixwww.theregister.comZeroCool@feddit.ch to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square220linkfedilink cross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.social
minus-squareraoulraoul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 years ago Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary That may be so but gopher was never any fun in comparison to www
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 years agoOh, it was - before we had the WWW. I remember the day when a co-student told me to have a look at this new web thingy, “like gopher, but with hypertext!”.
That may be so but gopher was never any fun in comparison to www
Oh, it was - before we had the WWW. I remember the day when a co-student told me to have a look at this new web thingy, “like gopher, but with hypertext!”.