[Web4lib] First library gophers?

[bernies at uillinois.edu]

Just saw these were being blocked.  You Do want these yes?
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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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