Chris Brannon chris at the-brannons.com
Tue Apr 27 19:19:06 BST 2021
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"The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]" <drwho at virtadpt.net> writes:
You didn't miss much - it was extremely difficult to search
Gopherspace. Then again, it
was extremely difficult to search anything until much later... as for
webapps, it's nice
to have stuff that's not all cgi-bin all the time.
Gopher was a lot of fun to explore. I could lose myself for hours at atime in it. As for web search, I remember Altavista being useful in thelate 90s, maybe starting sometime between 1995 and 1997 or so. It wasmy favorite search engine for a number of years.
I'm 42. I went online starting in 1993 with local BBSes and two of thecommercial online services of the time: CompuServ and GEnie. InDecember 1993, I signed up for my first account that included Internetservice. It was through a company called Delphi. I really lovedusenet, and it would be great to revitalize or recreate it in some way.