Re: Gopher server dedicated to WWW presentation
Lou Montulli (montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu)
Fri, 15 Oct 93 15:04:20 CDT
>
> :> In "marketing" WWW, it's important that information be accessible to
> :> *folks who are not yet on the Web*. I've suggested to TimBL
> :> that CERN run a tiny Gopher for this purpose, with perhaps a single
> :> descriptive document, a Telnet Lynx session, and a GIF screen image from
> :> Mosaic. This newsgroup layout would be similarly accessible to the
> :> masses who haven't yet seen the Web, while splitting off the voluminous
> :> developer dialogue.
> :>
> :> /Rich Wiggins, Gopher Coordinator, Michigan State U
> :>
> There is now a gopher server at info.cern.ch dedicated to WWW presentation !
> (HREF="gopher://info.cern.ch/")
>
> It is new and surely has plenty of omissions. Please mail them to
> www-request@info.cern.ch, as well as places where to pick up screen dumps
> of new products.
>
How about adding a script onto the info.cern.ch telnet site to give
the user a choice between the linemode browser and Lynx? I'll
volunteer to write the script/program if desired.
:lou
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