Conversations – Gopher, Jughead, Archie and BOTs
The predecessor to the World Wide Web was the Gopher protocol and the first search engines I used were Archie, Jughead and Veronica! Information was in files which good-natured people made available, or you got permission and accessed as needed. And even getting nuggets of information using text-based hierarchical systems was exhilarating. Loved it and […]