[zoeysmithe]

What a time capsule of how early free-ish software tried to monetize itself and the odd politics of University computer systems.

I was curious about Yen and saw a small bio about him:

https://chinacenter.umn.edu/umn-china/history/alumni/disting...

Its a bit interesting, and shocking, some of the members of the teams behind proto-HTTP software in the 90s were college graduates in the early 60s. If I'm doing my math correctly Yen would be in his 80's today.

[hypercube33]

I never really questioned why it was called gopher until today...but it makes sense. (Goldy the Gopher is the university mascot)