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On Wed, 1 May 2013, Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote:I don't think "Gopher" was proprietary (nor FTP). I remember using it and the Archie search service before http.Wikipedia mentions HyperCard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard For reasons of age, I had never heard of that, and reading about it, I'm not sure how much of a predecessor it really was.
I don't remember it being "network aware", but it may have been - Early Apple Mac thing.
And I just remembered Prestel. I had a prestel account way back - like 25+ years ago. That was proprietary - in as much as there was only one of them. I wrote Prestel access software for the BBC Micro...
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