[Web4lib] First library gophers?

[Richard Wiggins]

LOL!   Don't be embarrassed.  I didn't realize that the Big Ten logo has the
number 11 subliminally inserted for years and years.

Hey, worse than that the first Internet Gopher Workshop took place in Ann
Arbor, the land of the Wolverines, and Spartans including yours truly helped
organize it.

And the room included computer people and librarians, and Nancy John of U
Illinois Chicago stood up and famously schooled the computer people in some
notions the librarians had understood for decades if not centuries.

I believe someone doing a history of Gopher interviewed the Gopher Team at U
Mn and others a few years ago.  We might track down that lead and see what
was published.

I interviewed Mark McCahill, who headed the team, a number of years ago on
video, after the Gopher movement had crested.  He had observations on why
the Web won, including as I recall the notion that once the Web had embedded
images on a page, it could support advertising. I can digitize that
interview if Karen or others would be interested.

It looks like maintenance on this may have ceased, but I've considered this
source a pretty credible list of milestones in Internet history:

http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

/rich

On 7/11/06, Sloan, Bernie <bernies at uillinois.edu> wrote:
> Duhh!! Lightbulb slowly brightens!!! :-)
>
> In all my years on the Internet and the Web (and working at a Big Ten
> institution the whole time) it never once dawned on me that Gopher was
> called Gopher because it was developed at Minnesota.
>
> Embarrassed to admit it...
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> On 7/11/06 3:09 PM, "Ward Price" <wprice at utpa.edu> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if there are still any gophers left out there at all.
> > Last year I messed around looking for some, but couldn't find any, not
> > even the Golden Gopher.
> >
> > Ward
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> > [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:57 AM
> > To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > Subject: Re: [Web4lib] First library gophers?
> >
> > GO4LIB-L might be a better list to search, but of course it's gone.
> > Another
> > example of information disappearing off the web.
> > Roy
> >
> >
> > On 7/11/06 8:30 AM, "K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> I'd also recommend searching for "gopher" in the PACS-L archives:
> >>>
> >>> http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=pacs-l
> >>>
> >>> Searching the archive for every instance of "gopher" gets you more
> > than
> >>> 1500 results. Searching "gopher" in the subject line gets 89
> results.
> >>
> >> I spent some time yesterday in the pacs-l archives-a good tour,
> though
> > still
> >> somewhat inconclusive.
> >>
> >> K.G. Schneider
> >> kgs at bluehighways.com
> >>
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