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Before the web there was Gopher

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (2004) 26(1) 20-41
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2004.1278848
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Abstract

The World Wide Web, universally well known today, was preceded by. an efficient software tool that was fondly named Gopher, The Internet Gopher, much like the Web, enabled users to obtain information quickly and easily. Why, then, did it disappear but the Web did not? Gopher faded into obscurity for two main reasons: hypertext and commerce.

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Frana, P. L. (2004). Before the web there was Gopher. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 26(1), 20–41. https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2004.1278848

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