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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 engi
by 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 agoThe 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? :)