The current set of AI tools reminds me of the early days of the internet, with its related and/or competing technologies, like Usenet, Telnet, WAIS, FTP, Gopher and WWW/HTTP. Nobody yet knew which would succeed or fail. It was a time of curiosity, excitement — and nervousness… https://t.co/JMQdGOAKcE pic.twitter.com/YpCqx9r3Q8

— Michael Heraghty (@UserJourneys) January 5, 2025

? Browsing the web in Netscape I just ended up on the gopher:// part of the internet and it's still alive

Gopher is the actual predecessor to the modern WWW, no modern browser supports it anymore

But Netscape does, and there's actually a whole world out there of people still… https://t.co/47FVgrajh5 pic.twitter.com/Jx8rTY9QeB

— @levelsio (@levelsio) October 28, 2024