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Gopher, not many of us use it anymore, but a handful of people including myself are keeping it alive and writing new services that can be accessed via it. It’s
by cpsns 4y ago
Gopher, not many of us use it anymore, but a handful of people including myself are keeping it alive and writing new services that can be accessed via it. It’s a nice group of technical, slightly eccentric computer users.
The vintage Mac community is excellent and is full of extremely smart people. Lots of people writing new software, designing new hardware, and doing really complex repair and preservation work.
- jw_cook 4y ago> writing new services that can be accessed via it This sounds cool. Care to link some examples? And is there a particular Gopher browser you'd recommend? Also, how do you feel about Gemini?[1] I only learned about it recently, but it appears to be similar in purpose to Gopher (minimal sites with only text and links), but with a different document format based on a subset of Markdown. [1]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space https://gemini.circumlunar.space
- cpsns 4y agoA new one I started is gopher://gophernews.net:70, but the best place to find stuff is on Floodgap: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw Lynx is probably the best that most people already have, but Gophie is a nice, modern client written in Java. I think Gemini is nice, but I have no interest personally due to the TLS requirement. That makes it a nonstarter for my older computers.