Gopher Novice - Part X.
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Internet resources for business
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I've been looking Usenet (alt.gopher, comp.infosystems.gopher) but there
is also Internet Archive, which started to index research articles. It's
next big source where it is possible to find texts about Gopher. I was
writing about one survey in last article, now I'd like to write about
[Internet resources for business - Leslie M. Haas, 04/1994].
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Approximately a year ago, a question was posted on BUSLIB-L asking
for help finding such a guide for business. On discovering that
there wasn't one available, several librarians decided to create
one. The result was Business Sources on the Net (BSN). Currently, BSN
is divided into nine different files, each on a different business
subject. There are plans to add new subjects as more sources become
available on the Net and to update the existing files.
There are several memories about insufficient Veronica search engine
capabilities in 90's, so it isn't surprise that someone asked about
list of URLs on the [BUSLIB-L Archives Business Librarians]. What may
be surprising in terms of today's times, however, is that the article
says that the list was developed by professionals. Today, the Internet
is flooded with information of poor quality and unknown source.
So, professional librarians maintain catalogue of sources. But when
we look at article and these sources, we realise that most of them
is hosted by .edu hosts. So they were official data prepared by other
professionals.
I thought what a different world it was. The internet was not a
toy. Originating from the military network, provided by the state
to the academic network, it produced real information that was not
intended for entertainment. In this atmosphere, the Gopher protocol,
which is sometimes described as a derivative of the organization of
data in a library, was quite natural. Serious use for serious things.
I don't know if if you analyzed all the URLs mentioned in this article,
the data would be easily accessible today. Today's network has a
completely different goal - sales. It is possible that some scientific
institutions publish such data, but today it is a niche of what is on
the web.
What is more, it's worth to say that the most of URLs in article is
Gopher ones. So in 1994 the most of serious sources about business
were held on Gopher servers, despite other indexes (sometimes with less
serious theme) were splited between WWW and Gopher.
~ [Internet resources for business - Leslie M. Haas, 04/1994]:
https://scholar.archive.org/work/mj6oaiz4bjar5oln3vkx2pquiu
~ [BUSLIB-L Archives Business Librarians]:
http://lists.nau.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=BUSLIB-L
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