Bob Jackson writes: > In comparing WWW vs Gopher and WAIS, I admit > that WWW is a more powerful data representation model. > > But, its ability to discover information is only as good as > the links are and the links are made by hand. > > Gopher and WAIS have global information discovery tools > which know more than any one person does about available > resources, e.g., > > WAIS's directory-of-servers > Gopher's Veronica > Gopher's ts/tb or jughead > > and which are created by software. > > Is anyone working on similar tools for WWW?
Yup -- they're called Gopher and WAIS.
Marc
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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu