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Albatross May 16, 2025

Why yes, I'm playing songs off the Gopher server I'm running on the Raspberry Pi that I use as a jukebox.
#RFC1436 #Gopher #InternetGopher #RaspberryPi #retro #pygopherd

Albatross May 16, 2025

Sue has built system administration tools using Gopher. As expensive commercial tools encrust more and more junk on the https protocol these kinds of super-simple open-source solutions are going to gain interest.
#gopher #opensource #retro #InternetGopher
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Prentiss Riddle 🎛Nov 29, 2023

@zalasur (Before that my claim to fame was an aggregator of other people's human-curated directories of #InternetGopher. For about 15 minutes ca. 1993 my aggregator might have been in the top 100 sites on the internet. These weren't websites - the WWW at that point was basically a demo of a good idea without a lot of content. Gopher also had its own proto-Google search engine, called Veronica.)

https://www.umsl.edu/~munsr/civilwar/civgoph2.htm

#gopher @ed_packet

The Civil War and the Internet by R. Muns Gopher Example 2

Prentiss Riddle 🎛Nov 18, 2023

@dgold @flockofnazguls I became a webmaster the day I fired up httpd with a one-page skin of links to the main sections of my university's gopher server. 😄 #internetGopher

njsg Jul 6, 2023

@reidrac the same discoverability issues probably apply to #Gopher. #VERONICA does find stuff, but maybe I need to learn how to make it show results in a different order? That sounds like it'd sometimes help.

What other search engines are there for #InternetGopher?

I also have the tarball from some years ago somewhere, I suppose I could just unpack and grep it :-D (but of course this won't include newer content)

Other place where having a usable search engine and archive would help: #USENET.

Albatross Jan 25, 2023

#Minnesota was Silicon Valley before #SiliconValley
Watch this wonderful #documentary from Twin Cities #PublicTelevision (TPT) and see if you can spot a much younger me in the half second that I appear in a photograph!
https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/
#InternetGopher #RFC1436

Albatross Dec 3, 2022

Last week @pzriddle sent me some vintage Internet Gopher T-shirts that were apparently cluttering his attic. Now you can see me model these way-too-small shirts with my stomach TOTALLY sucked in so I can't breathe!
Thanks Prentiss!
#InternetGopher #vintage #gopher #RFC1436 #GopherWorldTour93 #oldtimecomputing #vintagecomputing #peoplewhoshouldnevermodel #GopherCon

doctorow Feb 22, 2020

RT @[email protected]

An article in @[email protected] by @[email protected] about #AdversarialInteroperability and #InternetGopher. Links include my Gopher paper. Elements I worked on include the SLIP communications driver, the Unix client, & the Gopher-FTP gateway (which is why I still hate FTP.)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Albatross/status/1231029769128550400

Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses

When Apple's App Store launched in 2008, it was widely hailed as a breakthrough in computing, a "curated experience" that would transform the chaos of locating and assessing software and replace it with a reliable one-stop-shop where every app would come pre-tested and with a trusted seal of...

Electronic Frontier Foundation