I advised the U of M students who created gopher. Also a smalltalk browser that never gained any traction because it was smalltalk and embedded in an image.
davew On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, at 11:15 AM, glen wrote: > IDK, I was fond of FTPMail and Gopher. They fit better with the BBS > interfaces I learned to love. I've forgotten if I've mentioned this > here before: > > https://telehack.com/telehack.html > > I played around on it quite a bit when I first learned of it ... blast > from the past. > > On 6/7/22 10:15, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Usenet in 1995 was the peak of the internet civilization. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jun 7, 2022, at 9:59 AM, Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I had a CMU Andrew account. You're all pikers. Long live AFS. >>> >>> --- >>> Frank C. Wimberly >>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >>> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >>> >>> 505 670-9918 >>> Santa Fe, NM >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:41 AM Steve Smith <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Glen wrote: >>>> >>>> Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with >>>> an aol.com <http://aol.com> suffix. I thought "Who in hell still uses >>>> AOL?" Ha! Now I've got a bad case of FOMO. But I'll be damned if I'm >>>> joining yet another Discord server ... maybe next week. >>> >>> I was recently back in touch with a high-school chum. She was quite >>> proud of her aol.com <http://aol.com> account and I didn't have the heart >>> to tell her how much the olde garde who had been on some version of the >>> internet before Al Gore (and AOL and Compuserve) invented it considered AOL >>> users to be an embarrassment. And then there are the WELL (whole earth >>> 'lectronic link) folks who were (in?) ordinately proud of their Bay Area >>> BBS system that hosted thousands (tens of?) in the 80s. I still have >>> friends who use their well.com <http://well.com> addys proudly. >>> >>> I am still a little mad/dismissive of AOL (and SciAm) because we did an >>> early hypermedia "proof of concept" for SciAm (student project at LANL) and >>> they blithely were (in the background) signing like a 10 year deal with AOL >>> to provide that service for their customers. For that whole decade (into >>> the 2000s) I think Scientific American did not even have a website (or when >>> they did it was served through AOL). We did all the mockup on a NeXT >>> machine which was a little unfair and/or showed things in too good of a >>> light really. Maybe what AOL did (pretty lame BTW) was actually a good >>> LCD (least common denominator) for *their* customers and many who were >>> dialing in at 1200bps on an early Winderz or even DOS machine. >>> >>> I was an early patron of the first ISP in Santa Fe (StudioX/nets.com >>> <http://nets.com>) with Roadrunner.com and several others coming in on >>> their heels for my first private e-mail/web address, but let it go when (on >>> their 10th anniversary) they *said* they were selling/passing us all off to >>> one of the others and becoming nothing but a boutique web design/services >>> shop. Apparently enough of their customers raised a ruckus because after >>> I'd moved to ABQ based Southwest Cyberport (thus swcp.com >>> <http://swcp.com>) they retracted the threat and kept nets.com >>> <http://nets.com> running (through whomever bought them out)... >>> >>> I do sometimes covet a well.com <http://well.com> address, but not >>> enough to actually sign up for it (seems they *still* offer new well.com >>> <http://well.com> addresses?). https://www.well.com/join/ >>> <https://www.well.com/join/> $150/year! > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
