A curated list of web sites of the old-school: mostly non-commercial and all hand-made, survivals of the Web As It Once Was. And sites that preserve the spirit of it.
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Where Have All the Gophers Gone?
Subtitled "Why the Web Beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mindshare", which pretty much explains what this essay is about. Also goes into some detail about the development and evolution of Gopher.
date added: 2024-10-26
tags: gopher history internet
Internet Statistics: Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet
The web is growing fast. In 1993 there were 130 websites, growing to an estimated 650,000 in 1997! Who knows what the future will bring? A collection of statistics by Matthew Gray, perhaps better known as the author of the first automated web agent ("spider"), the World Wide Web Wanderer.
date added: 2023-07-31
tags: web internet
The World Wide Web
Describes the WorldWideWeb (W3), a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
date added: 2022-11-22
tags: hypertext internet web
The Modemjunkie's Portal
Leonard Grossman's home page. Includes an archive of "Reflections of a Modemjunkie", a proto-blog describing adventures on the Internet from 1993 through the turn of the millenium.
date added: 2022-06-09
tags: internet blog homepages
Tricks of the Internet Gurus
"An Internet guru knows that the Internet only works due to information sharing that is mostly for free. The guru, therefore, must give something back to the Internet to improve the network. It might be a piece of software, documentation, frequently answering posts on Usenet constructively, or even just having a useful Gopher or Web server." Yes, this is a book about the Internet written in 1994.
date added: 2022-05-12
tags: computers internet history documentation