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@antoinnesterk

Don't laugh: Good ol' Veronica is still unforgotten. :)

The newest impl. is called "Search Veronica-2": A re-implementation of Veronica, for searching in the Gopherspace:

https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.floodgap.com/1/v2

The thing looks ancient, but it works!

e.g. when searching for the term NASA you will find a lot of entries. :)

The first one is this cute server run by taz.de:

https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/taz.de/1/%21t5022450

GopherProxy

GopherProxy

@khzimmer2 I also remember the time before. All was well in the past 😘

@antoinnesterk

Actually the content that you can find via Search Veronica 2 can be absolutely up-to-date.

e.g. this (critical) article covering the new Moon mission.

Sorry, it's in German:

https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/taz.de/1/%216168862

GopherProxy

GopherProxy

@antoinnesterk

Of course that's proxied content.

But perhaps it's (for some people) easier to read than the original WWW page. E.g. people using a #ScreenReader might want to give it a try …

@khzimmer2 The old-style UI (hypertext) design was definitely better for everyone