Comment by chrissnell

Gopher is awesome. It was my first real TCP/IP Internet experience in 1992. A high school friend and I discovered a terminal server at the local university that would allow telnet out w/o authenticating first. We would telnet to liberty.uc.wlu.edu, which ran public gopher WAIS clients that anyone could use. Having never seen anything like this before and not understanding hyperlinks, we assumed that navigating from one gopher server to another actually created connections between all of the servers. So, as we went from Texas to Virgina to California, Sweden, Japan, etc., we assumed that we were generating thousands of dollars in phone charges and that someone would eventually come looking for us.