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by riverdweller 1316 days ago
It is odd that as late as April 1994 the info service was migrated to gopher instead of http. By that time, most of the colleges had their own websites up and running. Students themselves were rapidly authoring web content (my contribution on my college server was a choose your own adventure from my room, past my dusty empty pigeonhole, through town to my common room bar). It was already clear that the ease of contribution meant http was going to dominate going forward. I guess the gopher migration wasn't a quick project.