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Evolution of Internet Gopher

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J.UCS The Journal of Universal Computer Science

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How the Internet Gopher system has evolved since its first released in 1991 and how Internet Gopher relates to other popular Internet information systems. Current problems and future directions for the Internet Gopher system.

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  1. University of Minnesota, USA

    Mark P. McCahill & Farhad X. Anklesaria

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  1. Mark P. McCahill
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  1. Institutes for Information Processing and Computer Supported Media (IICM), Technical University of Graz, Schiessstattgasse 4a, A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Hermann Maurer

  2. Department of Computer Science, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand

    Cristian Calude

  3. Turku Centre for Computer Studies, Data City, FIN-20 520, Turku, Finland

    Arto Salomaa

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McCahill, M.P., Anklesaria, F.X. (1996). Evolution of Internet Gopher. In: Maurer, H., Calude, C., Salomaa, A. (eds) J.UCS The Journal of Universal Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80350-5_23

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