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I'm old enough. But although I remember being aware of gopher's existence back in the early 90's, I never actually used it. I found the USENET newsgroups more interesting, especially comp.lang.c. By the time the newsgroups finally succumbed to Eternal September, I had migrated to web browsers like Mosaic or Cello.

(FWIW, when I got hired at Microsoft in 1993 I was the only one in my group who knew anything about the Internet or the Web. I had my time with Unix to thank for that. IE wasn't released until August of 1995, and it was only while "eating our own dogfood" during the leadup to that release that most Microsoftees got the WWW religion. Many still didn't "get it" until much much later.)


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Gopher anyone? - by videocast - 12-09-2013, 10:24 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by yrmt - 12-09-2013, 11:17 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by videocast - 12-09-2013, 11:38 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by yrmt - 12-09-2013, 05:04 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by videocast - 12-09-2013, 07:35 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by berk - 13-09-2013, 06:09 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by videocast - 13-09-2013, 01:17 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by jobss - 13-09-2013, 05:27 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by shtols - 14-09-2013, 06:37 AM
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RE: Gopher anyone? - by dami0 - 19-02-2015, 02:05 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 19-02-2015, 03:37 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by ThePlantMan - 24-04-2015, 01:20 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by xero - 24-04-2015, 01:21 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by venam - 24-04-2015, 03:44 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 17-08-2015, 07:38 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by rain1 - 19-04-2016, 09:07 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by venam - 19-04-2016, 09:18 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 20-04-2016, 06:19 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by crypto - 20-04-2016, 03:50 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 22-08-2020, 05:09 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by jkl - 22-08-2020, 07:05 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by pfr - 07-09-2020, 02:57 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 07-09-2020, 04:39 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by pfr - 10-09-2020, 02:53 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 10-09-2020, 09:15 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by venam - 10-09-2020, 09:24 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by pfr - 10-09-2020, 10:16 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 10-09-2020, 11:06 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 10-09-2020, 09:16 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by pyratebeard - 11-09-2020, 05:58 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by jkl - 11-09-2020, 08:40 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 11-09-2020, 09:20 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by jkl - 12-09-2020, 07:24 AM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by movq - 15-09-2020, 04:40 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by z3bra - 15-09-2020, 06:49 PM
RE: Gopher anyone? - by ckester - 15-09-2020, 10:59 PM