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