= Mark P. McCahill
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Mark P. McCahill is an American engineer and computer scientist known for his contributions to the development of the internet and web technologies. He is particularly recognized for his work on the Gopher protocol in the early 1990s, which was an early system for distributing and retrieving information over the internet. Gopher was designed to organize and navigate online content in a hierarchical manner, predating the World Wide Web and its Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
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