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[Chris Brannon]

"The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]" <drwho@virtadpt.net> writes:

> You didn't miss much - it was extremely difficult to search
> Gopherspace.  Then again, it
> was extremely difficult to search anything until much later... as for
> webapps, it's nice
> to have stuff that's not all cgi-bin all the time.

Gopher was a lot of fun to explore.  I could lose myself for hours at a
time in it.  As for web search, I remember Altavista being useful in the
late 90s, maybe starting sometime between 1995 and 1997 or so.  It was
my favorite search engine for a number of years.

I'm 42.  I went online starting in 1993 with local BBSes and two of the
commercial online services of the time: CompuServ and GEnie.  In
December 1993, I signed up for my first account that included Internet
service.  It was through a company called Delphi.  I really loved
usenet, and it would be great to revitalize or recreate it in some way.