While browsing the interwebs looking for the history of Gopher (arguably the precursor to html and the internet as we know it today), I found a video (in a torrent) that had two geeks discussing the protocol and how it functions.
In their demo they searched for 'salmon' on the world wide web. To my surprise, their first result pointed to the Chabad.org gopher. I had to crop that part out and share it with you. Chabad was in cyberspace more than five years before Google, and ten years before facebook. Chabad.org as we know it today, was spearheaded by 'the father of the Jewish internet' Rabbi Y.Y. Kazen, may his holy memory be blessed.
I am fascinated, and proud.
Without further ado, here it is:
P.s. You'll notice they point out the content they are looking at, Chabad's Gopher, does not run on a Gopher Plus server (this was probably due to budgetary constraints). Gopher Plus was an extension to Gopher that would include meta-data associated with the content. For the content in question, we would probably see that (the aforementioned) Rabbi YYK posted this content sometime in the mid 90's.
