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The Internet Gopher from Minnesota
Structured Text on the Internet before the World Wide Web
In the early 1990s, the nascent Internet was commonly, and often sensationally, referred to as the Information Superhighway despite the very acute feelings of vicarious embarrassment that the usage of this term aroused in young people of the time. The first solution to this problem was provided by Alan Emtage at the McGill University School of Computer Science who created Archie, a searchable index for the discovery of FTP servers first released on the 10th of September in 1990. The bulk of the university’s committee tasked with creating a campus-wide information system (CWIS) was focused on mainframes and elegant solutions in search… two things that Anklesaria and McCahill truly didn’t care for much at all.
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