... post office. The main traffic on the ARPANET was not long-distance computing. Instead, it was news and personal messages. Researchers were using ARPANET to collaborate on projects, to trade notes on work, and eventually, to downright gossip and schmooze." (Sterling, 1993) The desire to communicate and to communicate at speed with 'like-minded' persons for serious research, fun and profit ... graphical browser was created at the University of Minnesota, by a team led by computer programmer Mark MaCahill. The application was called "gopher," and was the first publicly available point-and-...

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