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Which protocol, introduced alongside the early web, used port 70 and preceded HTTP as the dominant way to navigate structured text documents across the internet?
Answer
Gopher
Gopher, developed at the University of Minnesota in 1991, was a menu-driven protocol for distributing documents that briefly rivalled the Web. It ran on port 70 and was widely used until the mid-1990s, when HTTP-based browsing eclipsed it.
💡 Did you know?
Gopher was so popular in the early 1990s that some universities seriously debated whether it — not the Web — would become the internet's dominant interface.
Other options people guess
- FTP
- Telnet
- WAIS
Topics
- 1990s
- internet
- protocols
- web-history
- networking
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