[ih] Copy of first web page discovered

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> Anonymous FTP was really the first network-wide standard mechanism for 
> publishing and obtaining stray documents around the net.
>
> Gopher was the first globally "integrated" document accessing 
> mechanism and was widely used by 1990.

And before gopher there were several CWISs (Campus Wide Information 
System) varients - Cornell's CUINFO, MIT Techninfo, Berkely Infocal 
(Z39.50 based, if I recall), a few others.   All sort of proto-gophers 
if you will.

Miles Fidelman


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