Imagine looking at a website with no color and no images on the page. It’s just a page with text of the same font and links. That was the web before the Mosaic web browser. Before Mosaic, which launched in 1993, the World Wide Web was unappealing. It wasn’t straightforward to navigate, and it was [...]
Defeated by the Web: The Story of Gopher
December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A communications protocol sets rules for and organizes the trafficking of information on a system. The Gopher protocol, released in 1991, was constructed to search for and collect files on the Internet. Created by several computer scientists at the University of Minnesota, the Gopher protocol predated the launch of the World Wide Web. Later, Gopher [...]