Am 16.09.2023 um 03:15:40 Uhr schrieb The Doctor:
Gopher was a Uminn fee IIRC.
How did they enforce that?
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
Am 16.09.2023 um 03:15:40 Uhr schrieb The Doctor:
Gopher was a Uminn fee IIRC.
How did they enforce that?
There were two references cited on the Wikipedia page: >https://groups.google.com/g/comp.infosystems.gopher/c/Qh9ip4gRjco/m/kaqs7s-LBosJ
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.radio.shortwave/c/L4hDGLQb9TQ/m/v96b56acXnMJ
The fee announced in February 1993 would have been collected for the use
of the gopher server at University of Minnesota, not the client. But users >were concerned that the University would attempt to collect the fee for >operating gopher servers on other networks. The University later changed
its mind, re-licensing under GNU public license in September 2000.
CERN didn't charge a fee to use http, but http wasn't an indexing scheme
and didn't enforce a logical hierarchy of documents. Gopher has real >advantages in logically organizing information but it's because
librarians and other information specialists were trying to think
logically about presenting the document hierarchy tree, something all
too often lacking at a Web site.
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