[Air-l] folder and file names as direct speech

[Alan Sondheim]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Jill Walker wrote:

>
> I assume gopher used to work like this before the web, though I never tried 
> it?
>
> Jill
>

Not really. Gopher was menu-driven and hierarchical; it used fixed 
protocols. There were also things like Scott Yanoff's list - which was a 
compilation of everything available, pretty much, early on - that did seem 
to be more of a group effort. But that just sent you to other sites.

Alan

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