Someone posted a gopher frontend to Google Maps to comp.infosystems.gopher πŸ˜‚ #retrocomputing
@taviso haha! That's really cool
@taviso usability as a flagship XD
@taviso this is the greatest thing ever.
@taviso this is the sort of insanity I’m here for πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘
@taviso do you have the url it goes by so fast in the video i want to try it

@taviso While not quite the same (directions vs. graphical map), it reminds me of Mapscii, a Telnet service that provides a terminal frontend to an #OpenStreetMap based map.

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii

GitHub - rastapasta/mapscii: πŸ—Ί MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows

πŸ—Ί MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows - rastapasta/mapscii

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@taviso

I could not possibly love this more

gopher rocks

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Where is the translate button????
@taviso once wrote an OpenStreetMap one for pygopherd, but it just shows the tiles.
https://m.g3l.org/@mmu_man/108709463623527702
mmu_man (@[email protected])

AttachΓ©β€―: 1 image For the record, I wrote a #Gopher gateway to #OpenStreetMap for pygopherd: http://revolf.free.fr/linux/osm.pyg Feel free to adapt this to #Gemini ;-) #MCH2022 #MCH2022clairvoyance

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@taviso Pity they removed the Easter Egg directions from Sydney, Australia to Tokyo, Japan. Step by step instructions to get to Darwin in far northern Aus. Final step: Kayak 4000km to Tokyo 🀣
@taviso That person deserves an award!
@taviso @dannyman a while ago I did an sms interface to it, simply to use from my phone

@taviso

very nice! we need to get a proper reboot of #gopherspace going somehow. the original federated network with menus to take you from one gopher hole to another seamlessly.

[ cc @pzriddle ]

@w8emv @taviso

The last credible window of opportunity I recall for rebooting #gopherspace was right before the birth of smartphones, when dumb phones had a bit of connectivity but limited graphics and no qwerty keyboards.

Has there been any text-only computing environment to speak of since?

@pzriddle @taviso

There are still some super low bandwidth (and content restricted) environments in the #hamradio world. Think services at the slow end of 9600 baud or even 1200 baud radio links.

@taviso @shmouflon damn, we need to up our gopher game
@az @taviso that thinking pause while it finds the routes is so beautifully 90’s