• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s true that Gopher never really went anywhere. It was convenient for what it was and it had Veronica (a basic search engine) which made it useful. But hyperlinks were a killer feature.

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      2 months ago

      But hyperlinks were a killer feature.

      Berners-Lee didn’t come up with that idea, though, did he? I thought he got the idea from Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu.