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Gopherpedia: The Gopher Interface to Wikipedia
- vmorgulis 10y agoGitHub: https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000 https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000 From a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280749
- anthk 10y agoInteresting. I get interested into something, (even legacy stuff) then everyone is in. Maybe is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floodgate_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floodgate_effect But there was a concise term about that.
- PieterH 10y agoWell, that was fun for aboit half an hour, then my brain was all "so why are we parsing fixed space fonts again? Did I miss some memo?" Would be a lot nicer with normal presentation. The menu structure works pretty well on a mobile phone. Don't miss the pictures at all. 6/10 would play with again.
- petecox 10y agogopher clients in the early 90s typically ran on a unix terminal with mono-spaced fonts, whose style this web interface is mimicking.
- fsiefken 10y agoIs there a way to access the other language versions of wikipedia with it? I would like to give my children access to the dutch or simple english wikipedia versions.
- bartbes 10y agoLooks like it only supports the english wikipedia: https://github.com/muffinista/gopherpedia.com/blob/master/fetcher.rb#L41 https://github.com/muffinista/gopherpedia.com/blob/master/fe...
- ThinkingGuy 10y agoAlso, it doesn't appear to handle non-Roman characters. From the Wikipeida article on Tokyo: "(, ), officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan..." Or is this a limitation of my Gopher client?
- ddmf 10y agoOh, brings back memories. gopher wiretap.spies.com was always my go to gopher site.