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The essence of gopher |
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July 03rd, 2018 |
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Our dear friend cat is at it again. He recently flew the coop |
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from SDF and has planted his seed in a new project called |
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baud.baby [0]. He's a resourceful guy and has quickly conquered |
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some of the more tedious aspects of getting your own gopher hole |
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up and running. Kudos, cat! |
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[0] baud.baby |
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His most recent phlog touches on one of his passions, vintage |
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phones [1]. In my humble opinion it is EVERYTHING that gopher |
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should be summed up into a microcosm of aussie geekdom. It has |
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passion for a vintage technology, collection, curation, more |
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technical details than you could have imagined, and a neverending |
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thirst for more. It's also beautiful. His manual text layouts |
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really shine on things like his phone collection page [2]. |
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[1] A bunch of Touchfone stuff |
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[2] Weirdly Specific Collection of Phones |
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I've run across similarly brilliant curation in places like |
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mateusz's DOS software repository [3], or Logout's new ASCII table |
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[4], or dbucklin's intelligence analysis documents [5]. This stuff |
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is gopher gold. |
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[3] mateusz's DOS software repository |
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[4] Logout's ASCII table |
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[5] dbucklin's Intelligence Analysis Documents |
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I've been really phlog focused in the past, but I think that |
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overlooked some of the best stuff around. Now I'm finally starting |
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to add more links to these collections and repositories over on my |
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Gopher Places [6] section. Check it out and discover some awesome. |
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[6] Gopher Places |
