[ale] gopher

[m-aaron-r]

LOL Larry!

And this year's Bill Gates "Never Innovate, Assimilate!"
technology hindsight award goes to Larry Johnson, for
his rendition of our favorite corporate mobster quote:

"Who would EVER need more than 640kB of memory??"

peace
aaron


On 2010/04/29, at 21:42 , Larry Johnson wrote:

> My great notable bad prediction of all time involved gopher.  At about
> the time the Mosaic web browser became widely available a co-worker
> approached me and said something to the effect of "You've gotta see
> this ... documents ... graphics ... etc!!!".  I took a look and said
> something to the effect of "I think I'll keep using veronica, archie,
> and the gopher system.  This World Wide Web thing loads too slowly and
> I don't really think it's going to go anywhere".
>
> Larry
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Paul Cartwright  
> <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>> wow,
>> back in the early 90's I used to bypass the AT&T web block by using  
>> gopher ..
>> now:
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/29/2141254/All-of-Gopherspace-Available-For-Download?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed 
>> :
>> +Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)
>>
>> An anonymous reader writes
>> "Cory Doctorow tells us that '[i]n 2007, John Goerzen scraped every  
>> gopher
>> site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to  
>> the Web;
>> I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000
>> documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he's  
>> making the
>> entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed data is  
>> only
>> 15GB. Wanna host the entire history of a medium? Here's your  
>> chance!' Get
>> yourself a piece of pre-Internet history (torrent)."
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
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>> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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