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Mark Perry McCahill (born February 7, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He has developed and popularized a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s, including the Gopher protocol, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and POPmail.
The Gopher protocol was invented by a team led by Mark P. McCahill at the University of Minnesota. It offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on the documents it stores.
Sep 5, 2016 · September 5, 2016. D.L. Anderson for The Chronicle. “We were a skunk-works project.” says Mark McCahill, who helped develop Gopher at the U. of Minnesota. For a few years in the early 1990s,...
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Sep 16, 2023 · Mark P. McCahill: The Architect Behind Early Internet Collaboration. by Staff. Posted On September 16, 2023. The internet’s expansive history is dotted with visionaries who didn’t just perceive it as a technological marvel, but as a tool for enhancing human connectivity and collaboration.
Jul 19, 2020 · A group of programmers---led by Mark P. McCahill, and including Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, and Bob Alberti---created Gopher while working for the University of Minnesota's microcomputer support department.
Aug 11, 2016 · Mark P. McCahill Papers, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. “The gods of the internet,” McCahill says, though in other circles they would have gone unnoticed. In his memoirs,...
In this oral history Mark P. McCahill, Assistant Director of Academic and Distributed Computing Services at the University of Minnesota, recounts his role as leader of the team that created the popular client/server Gopher software for organizing and sharing information on the Internet.
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