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Fun fact: gopher is still alive! It's not the same as back in the early 90s, but the protocol and some servers are alive and kicking.
by taborj 6y ago
Fun fact: gopher is still alive! It's not the same as back in the early 90s, but the protocol and some servers are alive and kicking.
- mech422 6y agoYeah? I haven't looked in years... Though I think I've probably lost some of the feeling of wonder exploring those servers 20 years ago engendered. For a young coder, from a small town with basically zero tech resources - they seemed like the library of Alexandria :-)
- ajtjp 6y agoIt's still there! I'd recommend gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ as a starting page these days, it has links to SDF, Veronica 2, and a lot of other Gopher resources. It's pretty easy to spin up your own Gopher hole with pygopherd these days as well - I re-hosted mine a few weeks ago and could't have been happier with the ease of setting it up. There are are lot of defunct Gopher holes, but a couple times a year I still get lost browsing through a mix of old and new ones. Install OverbiteWX in Firefox and take it for a spin sometime!
- mech422 6y agooh? I'll have to take another look - there was SOOO much good technical content!
- taborj 6y agoI also just discovered that there's an HN gopher hole! hngopher.com/1/ I loaded up the open source app Pocket Gopher (available on F-Droid), and while the formatting of ASCII graphics doesn't translate well to portrait mode, everything works.
- mech422 6y agoOhh..Something like that could be nice on my tablet. Thanks!
- badsectoracula 6y agoI have a feeling Gopher nowadays has more 'holes' available than it ever had :-P