Re: Re: Gopher
By: Gw to Sam Alexander on Thu May 10 2007 12:27 am
I was messing with gopher about 8 months ago and I check it out every now an again and I'm finding most sites that link to gopher host, the host there ha switched to http. In 1991 I used gopher and actually found my friend at the university just looking for his name. It was through AOL's interface.
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Re: Gopher
By: Sam Alexander to Kenneth Udut on Fri Sep 30 2005 12:39:00
I did like gopher and hated to see it die at such a young age.
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Is it really dead, or just dormant? I have no experience using it. Where do you start exploring what it offers? Some librarians several years ago wanted to develop a "Gopher Virtual Library" that catalogs at least the most interesting resources; dunno whether that ever became a reality.
Synchronet, of course, has the ability to be a gopher server (I think).
That being the case, I would like at least a nodding acquaintance with this space.
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Hehe, too funny, this reply is to a message I posted almost two years ago
:) What's crazier is I actually remember typing the original message
because it was sent just a day or so after getting back from my honeymoon. hehe
As for Gopher, in the day it rocked, but now the WWW has quickly trumped
it. Most of the colleges used to have very active Gopher sites, but yeah, most now'days have moved to WWW sites instead.
I enjoyed having multiple ways of getting your info, gopher, FTP, wais, Telnet, etc... but now it's all WWW. In 1993 I bought the Internet Yellow Pages, and I'd say maybe one link out of every 20-30 pages was WWW with the rest being gopher, ftp, or the like. WWW has really taken off and to most _become_ the Internet. I see folks say they offer free Internet yet they
only have ports 80 and 443 open... that's not THE INTERNET, or not for me.
Oh well --
Sam
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