"The 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web passed earlier this year. Naturally, this milestone was met with truckloads of nerdy fanfare and
pining for those simpler times. In three decades, the Web has evolved
from a promising niche experiment to being an irreplaceable component of
global discourse. For all its many faults, the Web has become all but
essential for billions around the world, and isn’t going anywhere soon.

As the mainstream media lauded the immense success for the Web, another Internet information system also celebrated thirty years – Gopher. A forgotten heavyweight of the early Internet, the popularity of Gopher
plummeted during the late 90s, and nearly disappeared entirely.
Thankfully, like its plucky namesake, Gopher continued to tunnel across
the Internet well into the 21st century, supported by a passionate
community and with an increasing number of servers coming online."

More on: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/28/gopher-the-competing-standard-to-www-in-the-90 s-is-still-worth-checking-out/
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