"internal-gopher-image"?!?

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 15:55:35 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9312132355.AA03730@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: tom@fatty.law.cornell.edu (Thomas R. Bruce)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: "internal-gopher-image"?!?
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Thomas R. Bruce writes:
> This question probably stems from being asleep at the switch as usual,
> but what does
>          <IMG SRC="internal-gopher-image">
> mean, and what unexplored part of the HTML standard is it part of?

It's an internal feature in Mosaic for X, to get cute icons in Gopher
menus (and now FTP menus).  We have not documented it nor intended it
for general use, but some people (USGS) have been using it in
generally available documents anyway... sigh...

The bitmaps themselves are in the Mosaic source code (src/bitmaps), in
xbm format.

Cheers,
Marc