Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary. The University of Minnesota owned the code and proposed to charge server owners for using it. Meanwhile Sir Tim over at CERN was handing out the original httpd under an MIT-style license.
Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary. The University of Minnesota owned the code and proposed to charge server owners for using it. Meanwhile Sir Tim over at CERN was handing out the original
httpdunder an MIT-style license.University of Minnesota, my dude…software named for their mascot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
That may be so but gopher was never any fun in comparison to www
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