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Lets all sing the University of MN fight song now
by bluGill on Wednesday 23/Nov/2005, @07:05

Remember Gopher? It died about 1995, but in the early 90s it was more popular than WWW, and growing faster. One major limitation is it didn't have a URL. Every site gave directions in the following form:

goto the UofMN main gopher (which all clients had programed in)->all the servers in the world->North America->state->Company main page->link->link->text file. (Gopher did not support graphical pages like the web did).

URLs may not be perfect, but that was one large advantage of the web - you could give someone a (complex) URL and they would get right to their site.

Maintaining the UofMN main gopher site cost so much money that they started to charge for use of gopher, and killed the whole thing off.

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