On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I remember stating some time ago that all the fancy WWW gymnastics, such as > Java, Javascript, Shockwave, even frames, and slow-loading pages, made me wish > the Internet could return to Gopher. I've seen only a little bit of Gopher but > liked it better than all the Web gynmastics.
Gopher was basically a lynx-like world... but then, so was the http of that day. I'm sure that if Gopher had been allowed to be commercialized as http was, you'd see similar gizmos designed simply for the WOW effect. > DOS Lynx386 handles Gopher as I have found. I think all versions of Lynx handle gopher. > Does anybody know what happened to WAIS? Yahoo, Alta Vista, Google... WAIS is still around as freeWAIS. http://wihok.8m.com/linux/rhl48.htm - Steve
