Gopher

This was one of the earliest way of indexing the 'World Wide Web'. It was used before search engines were invented.

In those days there were so few web pages that they could be indexed like a book and Gopher made this 'book' available on the Internet. It identified the server, directory and filename of the item being searched for.

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2020-10

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