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When was the Last Time You Used Gopher?

ahuber asks: "As part of a class for LIS 391 @ the University of Illinois, I'm doing a history of the gopher protocol. My intent in this is to track the rise and fall of old technologies in hope that it tells us something about technologies we use today. So, my question to you is: When was the last time you used a gopher server? What did you use it for? And finally, do you miss the gopher now that its virtually gone? While some of you may think this is a silly topic, old and useful technologies are going the way of Gopher every day. One example from my campus is the retiring of the newsgroup server and telnet. Do you have any similar experiences that made you think twice about giving up an older technology?"

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  1. Ground Hog day by Phillup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Feburary 2nd

    No... wait... that was a ground hog, not a gopher.

    Sorry.

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    --Phillip

    Can you say BIRTH TAX