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Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux
- auraham 4y agoany interesting gopher site to visit?
- smohare 4y agoSeriously.
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- avmich 4y agoWhy one? Veronica lists a hundred or two - one can choose among them after checking them all, I guess?
- achillean 4y agoThese are some public Gopher servers but not sure which ones are notable/ interesting: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=gopher+port%3A70 https://www.shodan.io/search?query=gopher+port%3A70
- lelandfe 4y agoSteven Frank, cofounder of Panic Inc., keeps his blog exclusively on gopher: gopher://stevenf.com:70/1. (He there links out to other gopher sites that may be of interest.) Twitter users had fun trying to figure out wtf to do with that: https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1520144706511904768 https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1520144706511904768
- amatecha 4y agoSDF has a pretty comprehensive site, hosting tons of stuff: gopher://sdf.org Codevoid: gopher://codevoid.de Quux: gopher://gopher.quux.org
- mastazi 4y agoSome of the aggregators that I like: Floodgap - generalist gopher portal with lots of links - gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ Cosmic voyage: collective writing experiment - gopher://cosmic.voyage Bongusta - phlogs aggregator & community - gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta/ SDF - phlogs aggregator & community - gopher://sdf.org Tildeverse: aggregator for tilde communities - gopher://tildeverse.org Gopherpedia: reading Wikipedia through Gopher because why not - gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/1/
- anthk 4y agoI would add gopher://magical.fish among those. And gopher://1436.ninja, maybe.
- mninm 4y agoA video game wiki I use sometimes: gopher://GiantGopher.com:70/ Games you can play on Gopher: gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/ gopher://GiantGopher.com:70/--/Winnifred_Huck There was another HN Gopher thread recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392145#31410764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392145#31410764
- Agamus 4y agoI'm cobbling a gopher site for a book of metaphysics. It doesn't work for clients yet, but I have the gopher server in replit here: https://replit.com/@agamus/metaphysikos?v=1 https://replit.com/@agamus/metaphysikos?v=1
- anthk 4y agogopher://magical.fish gopher://sdf.org gopher://mozz.us gopher://bitreich.org gopher://hngopher.com (heh).
- pbreit 4y agoOff topic: can any suggest the easiest way to run a USENET/NNTP server (open source preferred)? I've Googled a bunch but cannot find a decent solution.
- mananaysiempre 4y agoIf NNTP is not your primary goal, public-inbox[1] will serve mailing list archives over NNTP (among other access methods). [1]: https://public-inbox.org/README.html https://public-inbox.org/README.html
- cykros 4y agoSeems like you got the easiest ways already, but perhaps the most fun way is through the Synchronet BBS system, which will run on Windows, Linux, or *BSD (not sure if this includes OS X...probably, with effort). It's primary purpose of course is to host an ANSI BBS, but it includes services for a web interface to the message base, as well as NNTP, gopher, ftp...heck, even POP/SMTP if you really wanna go nuts. And it'll interface just fine with the old Door games too through something like dosemu. https://synchro.net/ https://synchro.net/
- ta988 4y agohttps://www.leafnode.org/ https://www.leafnode.org/ is decent if you just need a small instance. https://james.apache.org/ https://james.apache.org/ for more entreprisey stuff. And the old but reliable https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/ https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/
- Tomte 4y agoIf on Windows, Hamster is easiest and most powerful: http://www.elfden.co.uk/hamster/conf.htm http://www.elfden.co.uk/hamster/conf.htm Most web sites about it are in German, but the program itself has English language UI, as well. There is also the derivative Hamster Next, which does proper server-to-server peering.
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- teeray 4y ago> Gophie is written in plain Java for anyone and any system It’s a shame it wasn’t written in Go for maximum confusion
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- tonfreed 4y agoShould have written it in rust and posted it to r/golang
- jansc 4y agoAdded some commits to my gopher/gemini client written in rust an hour ago: https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher
- rob74 4y agoActually a Gopher client written in Go seems like a natural fit - a quick search finds this one: https://tildegit.org/sloum/Bombadillo https://tildegit.org/sloum/Bombadillo - with TUI and vim keybindings for maximum nostalgia...
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- midislack 4y agoGophie is neat but I am hooked on Elpher.
- dake1 4y ago
- ralphc 4y agoA good article on gopher in 2021: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/28/gopher-the-competing-standard-to-www-in-the-90s-is-still-worth-checking-out/ https://hackaday.com/2021/09/28/gopher-the-competing-standar... a starting point is gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70
- amatecha 4y agoRunning the Java version quite smoothly in OpenBSD 7.1. Nice! The name reminds me of the old Anarchie FTP search client :) Probably not the intention, but similar era. This is bringing back quite some nostalgia - the internet used to be so much different!
- tssva 4y agoThere is no real connection between the two but Gopher always makes me think of OS/2 since it was the platform I used Gopher on. There was a free PM Gopher client available which was written by an IBM employee on their own time.
- DavidAdams 4y agoIt makes me think of VMS/VAX because I ran a gopher server on a VAX
- themodelplumber 4y agoThat's pretty cool. OS/2 needed more of those things, special software benefits of using the OS. It was such a promising platform...I remember being kind of sad to move along. Linux started really getting popular during OS/2's waning days but I'm not sure if OS/2 people really migrated or wanted to migrate in that direction.
- tssva 4y agoI suspect not too many did. Most probably switched to Windows 9x on the desktop with Windows NT being the next most common choice. On the server side most of my customers used OS/2 for running Communications Server or LAN Server. These were replaced by Windows NT and Windows NT running SNA Server. SNA Server was one of the worst products I have ever had the misfortune to have to support.
- mountainboy 4y agoI migrated from OS/2 directly to linux.
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- gtsnexp 4y agoOS/2 Warp was a work of art...
- qgin 4y agoMy favorite websites are gopheresque
- themodelplumber 4y agoI spent a lot of time on gopher growing up (thanks SCN.org & my public library) but I still preferred simple-style websites then and do now...for some weird reason. I do find that I like at least a tiny bit of metaphor in some visual way. Could be a single tiny .gif icon even. Gopher's still pretty fun, just a bit of an interest stacking order.
- tonfreed 4y agoIs there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere? Honest question, if you like it I'm not trying to put you down, but I just don't see how it's any better or worse than HTTP
- cykros 4y agoSometimes, you just go online because you want to read about something. These days, it feels that most place on the web are designed to, well, do most anything other than let you have what you want to read without at the very least distracting the crap out of you, and often tracking you all over the place and suggesting that you read (or more often, WATCH) these other things that aren't actually what you asked for, and would you look at the time... It's a lot like how some people read books sometimes even though movies are available.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere? I think it's largely a demonstrative reaction against the appification of the web, built upon gopher’s more limited interface which is more heavily optimized to a read-only hypertext use case, which fits a lot of people's nostalgic idealization of the early web.
- jhoechtl 4y ago> Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere? I think it's largely a demonstrative reaction against the commercialization of the web, built upon gopher’s more limited interface which is more heavily optimized to a read-only hypertext use case, which fits a lot of people's nostalgic idealization of the early web
- ksherlock 4y agoIf you'd like to know how it's worse... A gopher URL looks like: gopher://host/Xfile Where X isn't part of the path name, it's one-character file type code. This code is client-side only and determine how the client downloads and interprets the file. Gopher has 2 separate ways of sending files - Binary files are sent as-is. Text/Menu files are sent line-oriented, with a CRLF after each line and a trailing . CR LF at the end. Again, the type code is on the client side and is not sent to the server.
- grishka 4y agoThe weird thing is that the code looks like it was written without an IDE! At the very least, IDEs hate the '*' imports, yet there's plenty.
- Proven 4y ago
- Tomte 4y ago"The application requires a Java Runtime Environment 8". Is there a reason for that, aren't current Java versions compatible? I've also seen that with Freeplane, and it's always a stumbling block.
- kaba0 4y agoThere is not even a JRE anymore. I guess they just don’t want to ship separate exe files to different platforms, but to answer your question, a modern JDK should work just fine.
- baumschubser 4y agoWorth mentioning: the German daily "taz", one of the bigger newspapers (green/liberal/left leaning), offers to this day a full text Gopher site: gopher://taz.de, even as onion service gopher://ibpj4qv7mufde33w.onion
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- unsafecast 4y agoNot _that_ related, but why does everyone use monospace in these types of programs? I get that it looks nice, but you can re-produce the general look in a proportional font that's infinitely easier on the eyes.
- bovermyer 4y agoLagrange, a Gemini browser rather than a Gopher client, has decent typography. I do wish non-TUI Gopher clients would at least experiment with proportional typefaces, though.
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- thesuitonym 4y agoA lot of gophermaps and files served on gopher have ASCII art headers that expect fixed-width text.
- unsafecast 4y agoThat's fair. It would've been nice to have syntax for fixed-width blocks.
- generic-husky 4y agoIt looks and pretty and modern, but what does this client do that Lynx doesn't?
- snvzz 4y agoI typically use gopherus[0]. Besides unixlikes, it works on DOS (I use it with FreeDOS), and has very low requirements (I believe it works on 8086 PCs). 0. http://gopherus.sourceforge.net/ http://gopherus.sourceforge.net/
- lindner 4y agoAnd here I am just waiting for the revival of Hyper-G :-D https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220349551_The_Hyper-G_Network_Information_System https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220349551_The_Hyper...