ZeroCool to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoUSENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenixwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square205fedilinkarrow-up1524arrow-down112 cross-posted to: usenet@lemmy.mlcomputerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.socialsyncforlemmy@lemmy.world
arrow-up1512arrow-down1external-linkUSENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenixwww.theregister.comZeroCool to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square205fedilink cross-posted to: usenet@lemmy.mlcomputerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.socialsyncforlemmy@lemmy.world
minus-square@raoulraoul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•10 months 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-square@Treczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•10 months 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!”.