More than a decade ago, gopher took the Net by storm. The Web stole its thunder soon after, but enthusiasts are still keeping it alive -- and bringing it into the future. By Lore Sjöberg.

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The danger and irritations of the modern web have unleashed a movement dedicated to creating a safer and simpler alternative. The old Gopher networ...

My first online interaction, circa 1992, fascinated but also terrified me. I should have taken it as a warning. At the time, computers were just machines you had in your basement. They had programs in them, and you would sit in a chair and use those programs for a while, then go do something else. The whole time you used

Let's use the internet like it's 2005

Thanks to the increasing disillusionment with today's Internet, many individuals are creating their own websites. Though some are specifically designed to look like websites from the 1990's, all are original, creative expressions of their owners' personalities, something that is rarely tolerated on the websites of the corporate Internet.