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1 month agoYou wrote them up so when the question comes up you can copy and paste out point then to the line number. Make them feel mildly embarrassed for not looking for it. It won’t stop all of it, but it helps.


You wrote them up so when the question comes up you can copy and paste out point then to the line number. Make them feel mildly embarrassed for not looking for it. It won’t stop all of it, but it helps.
Really cool bit of computing history. Thanks.


Absolutely great work. Never would have even considered a steno.


I’m just a hair too young to have dealt with gopher in any meaningful way, I went from bbs days to the web. The changes happened while I was in the military and I heard people talk about the web. Thought it was just bbs with some new terms. Played with gopher and Archie, Jughead, and Veronica after I got far enough in to understand the net just to see what else existed. Really cool to get some historical context on this stuff.
Outside of making a search engine or trying to make a new browser or at least a plugin, I don’t see how this would be useful. Getting anything fixed on the web is a heruclean task unless there is money not being made. Getting a government site fixed is harder than getting good legislation passed.
If it was a project that tried to route around things and auto sent emails with an overview might work, but I expect they would be thwarted by stupid network policies.