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eddyv · 3898 days ago · link · · parent · post: Adults of Hubski that saw Internet born and raise, what stories about the early Internet you will tell to your grandchildren?
If I remember right, the alternate spelling of her name was Anna Porrnikova
eddyv · 3898 days ago · link · · parent · post: Adults of Hubski that saw Internet born and raise, what stories about the early Internet you will tell to your grandchildren?
Here's a nice weberized gopher proxy loaded with great memories: http://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.viste-family.net/
eddyv · 3898 days ago · link · · parent · post: Adults of Hubski that saw Internet born and raise, what stories about the early Internet you will tell to your grandchildren?
I fell in love with Minitel when visiting France and upon return I had to spend a fortune on my 1200 baud modem to use Archie, usenet, FTP, Kermit, etc in order to upload and download uuencoded files from gopher sites. I sure do miss gopher and the civilized and occasionally erudite banter that went on. As this ars technica puts it, http won but gopher "tunnels" on: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/