[Noisebridge-discuss] Gopher Archive - Download A Piece of Internet History

[lee worden]

But why is it important to access the gopher data via http?  As I remember 
it, a large part of the original motivation for the WWW (distinct from 
html or http) was to provide a unitary browser interface and URL scheme to 
access data published on multiple protocols - particularly gopher.
lw

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Mike Rotondo wrote:
> To: Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com>
> Cc: noisebridge-discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Gopher Archive - Download A Piece of
>     Internet History
> 
> Typing gopher://blah into your browser actually has nothing to do with the
> web, it's just that some "web" browsers also support the gopher protocol (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Gopher_support_in_Web_browsers
> )
>
> Sai's talking about a website that exposes the gopher data, but doesn't use
> the gopher protocol, which would indeed be sweet
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> Someone needs to write a website interface to this.
>>
>>
>> ?? One of the many reasons the web was successful was that it could
>> still interface with other protocols.
>>
>> We had plenty of gopher://site.name URLs as well as the 'new'
>> http://site.name
>>  urls.
>>
>> Maybe I don't understand what was meant and am stating the obvious.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Glen
>> _______________________________________________
>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list
>> Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
>>
>