Back from Minneapolis

[Reposted 05 FEB 2006: What happened??? Somehow this entry disappeared...]

I spent a few days this past week at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis -- my first time there. Nice place, but why couldn't the company have sent me to Hawaii in January?

Back when I was in college, the University of Minnesota was famous among computer geeks as the place where the Gopher Internet protocol was developed. That was back in the good old days, when the Internet was largely text-based. Soon, however, Gopher was supplanted by HTTP, which is the protocol you used to download this page to your computer. By the late '90s, there were hardly any Gopher servers left.