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Gopher is still alive :) http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw Veronica-2 is the gopherspace search engine: http://gopher

Gopher is still alive :) http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw Veronica-2 is the gopherspace search engine: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?ss=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.floodgap.com%3A70%2F7%2Fv2%2Fvs&sq=McCahill http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?ss=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgophe...

Jaruzel 10y ago
Inspired by Cameron Kaiser's (and others) ongoing work to keep Gopher alive, I spent a good few months this year writing a new Windows client for it: http://www.weegeeks.com/upload/Jar-Gopher-Browser-Full-Screenshots.jpg http://www.weegeeks.com/upload/Jar-Gopher-Browser-Full-Scree... Unfortunately real life has got in the way, and I've not found time to release it yet.
- zafiro17 10y ago
  Not sure how you'd visit gopher sites in Windows. Add the Overbite Firefox plugin available at Floodgap, I suppose. On Unix/Linux "forg" is really nice on the GUI side, and lynx is your best bet at the CLI. Although you'll find the original gopher client in a lot of repos too - all derivatives of Debian/Ubuntu and FreeBSD, at least.
  - Jaruzel 10y ago
    > Not sure how you'd visit gopher sites in Windows. By using a windows Gopher client. There are several, but mostly outdated. Which is why I have written a new one. I guess you didn't check the screenshot I posted.
spc476 10y ago
And there are even blogs (known as phlogs) in gopher. After reading one (gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jstg/phlog) I was motivated enough to modify my blogging engine (https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog) to support gopher. The gopher protocol itself is very simple so getting a simple server up and running was rather easy: gopher://gopher.conman.org/
- zafiro17 10y ago
  The article says there are just over a hundred gopher sites in existence. Yay - mine is one of them! I've got 200 or so articles on my website and one day I decided to make them all available as well over gopher. It's easy to do: install pygopherd on your machine for the server, and run your HTML files through an emacs macro that strips the HTML and outputs 80 column text, and you're in business! It feels whimsical to have a gopher site up and running, but it costs me nothing and earns me nothing. It's there because I like it and because I feel happy knowing it's there. In a way, that's the sentiment behind the Internet in its earliest days. And that's what i like about it - the philosophical purity of doing something for its own sake. And now, for the simple pleasure of posting a link with that old protocol: gopher://therandymon.com How awesome does that look? :)
kseistrup 10y ago
Gopher is great. However, an effort should be made to offer StartTLS on port 70 so that we can have encrypted gopher traffic.

Jaruzel 10y ago

Inspired by Cameron Kaiser's (and others) ongoing work to keep Gopher alive, I spent a good few months this year writing a new Windows client for it: http://www.weegeeks.com/upload/Jar-Gopher-Browser-Full-Screenshots.jpg http://www.weegeeks.com/upload/Jar-Gopher-Browser-Full-Scree... Unfortunately real life has got in the way, and I've not found time to release it yet.

zafiro17 10y ago
Not sure how you'd visit gopher sites in Windows. Add the Overbite Firefox plugin available at Floodgap, I suppose. On Unix/Linux "forg" is really nice on the GUI side, and lynx is your best bet at the CLI. Although you'll find the original gopher client in a lot of repos too - all derivatives of Debian/Ubuntu and FreeBSD, at least.
- Jaruzel 10y ago
  > Not sure how you'd visit gopher sites in Windows. By using a windows Gopher client. There are several, but mostly outdated. Which is why I have written a new one. I guess you didn't check the screenshot I posted.

spc476 10y ago

And there are even blogs (known as phlogs) in gopher. After reading one (gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jstg/phlog) I was motivated enough to modify my blogging engine (https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog) to support gopher. The gopher protocol itself is very simple so getting a simple server up and running was rather easy: gopher://gopher.conman.org/

zafiro17 10y ago
The article says there are just over a hundred gopher sites in existence. Yay - mine is one of them! I've got 200 or so articles on my website and one day I decided to make them all available as well over gopher. It's easy to do: install pygopherd on your machine for the server, and run your HTML files through an emacs macro that strips the HTML and outputs 80 column text, and you're in business! It feels whimsical to have a gopher site up and running, but it costs me nothing and earns me nothing. It's there because I like it and because I feel happy knowing it's there. In a way, that's the sentiment behind the Internet in its earliest days. And that's what i like about it - the philosophical purity of doing something for its own sake. And now, for the simple pleasure of posting a link with that old protocol: gopher://therandymon.com How awesome does that look? :)

kseistrup 10y ago

Gopher is great. However, an effort should be made to offer StartTLS on port 70 so that we can have encrypted gopher traffic.