Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)
Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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Larry, I agree that <IMG/> made a big difference but surely it was <POST/>
that really made HTML/HTTP different?
Regards/Ngā mihi
Brian
On 29-Apr-26 09:59, Larry Masinter via Internet-history wrote:
>> Gopher was (is?) a similar cautionary tale. It was a good design and
>> although it was a lot less flexible than the web, it was also a lot
>> easier to implement and loaded the servers less.
>
> http 0.9 was essentially gopher: open a connection, GET the document in one
> exchange, close the connection. One transaction per document/directory
> list. The complexity came from using multiple connections for a single
> document with many embedded images rather than portable compound document
> formats, moving the format complexity into the protocol.
>
> As. a side note, adding M. McCahill, University of Minnesota, (RFC 1436)
> as an editor of RFC 1738 (URL) helped show the gopher community how to
> preserve their investment in gopher servers while migrating to the web.
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