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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary

That may be so but gopher was never any fun in comparison to www

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, it was - before we had the WWW. I remember the day when a co-student told me to have a look at this new web thingy, "like gopher, but with hypertext!".