August 25, 2002

Beginning of the End for Gopher?

Christian Crumlish

Following a link from Q Daily News (I'm still exploring links that turned up from checking out the UC Berkeley J-School IP Weblog Class syllabus mentioned in an entry yesterday), I found this copy of developer's notes for Internet Explorer 6 SP 1, including the nonchalant mention that they are effectively abandoning the Gopher protocol:

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Posted by xian at August 25, 2002 12:49 PM
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