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You should poke around in gopher. Has a very dial-up BBS feel, complete with FIGlets. Here is a nice web proxy: https://gopher.commons.host/ https://gopher.com

by every 6y ago

You should poke around in gopher. Has a very dial-up BBS feel, complete with FIGlets. Here is a nice web proxy: https://gopher.commons.host/ https://gopher.commons.host/

Jaruzel 6y ago
Floodgap is the de-facto home of Gopher: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ If you are on Windows, I have written a nice modern gopher client: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-windows http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...
- eddieh 6y ago
  Very cool, but the screenshots are really small.
  - Jaruzel 6y ago
    Yeah - I did have larger, but they um, got lost. I keep meaning to do new ones.
- anthk 6y ago
  I prefer gopher://magical.fish
  - Jaruzel 6y ago
    Ooh nice site - it's not been around that long either. That said, Cameron Kaiser has done so much to promote gopher, I don't feel it's fair to redirect people away from his site though.
    - anthk 6y ago
      Every Gopher hole is good, but magical.fish is a great showoff as an intro :D.
mark_l_watson 6y ago
In the 1980s we had fantastic Internet connectivity and bandwidth at SAIC but most stuff was on FTP sites. I spent at least an hour a week curating lists of FTP sites and directory listings of them. I was sort-of a human search engine and would help people find useful stuff. Then the text-based www happened, then Mozilla happened, and things exponentially got more awesome. We had a smart young guy, Greg Hannah, who set up web servers for us on just about day zero of the web.
pmoriarty 6y ago
For some more nostalgia, check out: http://telehack.com/ "Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's from the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.* "You can telnet directly to Telehack on the regular telnet port of 23. "Open a command shell and type telnet telehack.com "See http://telehack.com/telehack.html http://telehack.com/telehack.html for more information."
- anthk 6y ago
  Funny, yesterday I was there, I was curious about playing Vicious Cycles over telnet and some BSD 4.3 machine under Simh (yes, I have it under OpenBSD and Frotz too, but I was just having fun :) ).
paultopia 6y ago
Gopher was how I first got on the internet! Oh memories! Poking through the posted site... I still remember when I discovered this[1] circa 1993-ish. It was the funniest thing ever back then. http://www.textfiles.com/humor/final-ex.txt http://www.textfiles.com/humor/final-ex.txt

by every 6y ago

You should poke around in gopher. Has a very dial-up BBS feel, complete with FIGlets. Here is a nice web proxy: https://gopher.commons.host/ https://gopher.commons.host/

Jaruzel 6y ago

Floodgap is the de-facto home of Gopher: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ If you are on Windows, I have written a nice modern gopher client: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-windows http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...

eddieh 6y ago
Very cool, but the screenshots are really small.
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  Yeah - I did have larger, but they um, got lost. I keep meaning to do new ones.
anthk 6y ago
I prefer gopher://magical.fish
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  Ooh nice site - it's not been around that long either. That said, Cameron Kaiser has done so much to promote gopher, I don't feel it's fair to redirect people away from his site though.
  - anthk 6y ago
    Every Gopher hole is good, but magical.fish is a great showoff as an intro :D.

mark_l_watson 6y ago

In the 1980s we had fantastic Internet connectivity and bandwidth at SAIC but most stuff was on FTP sites. I spent at least an hour a week curating lists of FTP sites and directory listings of them. I was sort-of a human search engine and would help people find useful stuff. Then the text-based www happened, then Mozilla happened, and things exponentially got more awesome. We had a smart young guy, Greg Hannah, who set up web servers for us on just about day zero of the web.

pmoriarty 6y ago

For some more nostalgia, check out: http://telehack.com/ "Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's from the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.* "You can telnet directly to Telehack on the regular telnet port of 23. "Open a command shell and type telnet telehack.com "See http://telehack.com/telehack.html http://telehack.com/telehack.html for more information."

anthk 6y ago
Funny, yesterday I was there, I was curious about playing Vicious Cycles over telnet and some BSD 4.3 machine under Simh (yes, I have it under OpenBSD and Frotz too, but I was just having fun :) ).

paultopia 6y ago

Gopher was how I first got on the internet! Oh memories! Poking through the posted site... I still remember when I discovered this[1] circa 1993-ish. It was the funniest thing ever back then. http://www.textfiles.com/humor/final-ex.txt http://www.textfiles.com/humor/final-ex.txt