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The Electric King James Bible Remake
It's been a long time since [1] I last mentioned The Electric King James
Bible [2], an experiment I did back in late 1999 in URL (Uniform Resource
Locator) addressing a portion of a document (which influenced the structure
of my blog [3]). The code hasn't changed much since 1999 (there was a bug fix
around 2010 it seems), and thus, it has sat there, chugging along with little
attention to the greater world.
Until the past month when I've had email discussions with two different
people about The Electric King James Bible [4]. Both people were interested
in the addressing scheme, which I think is still unique on the Internet. How
many sites will let you link directly to a portion of the Bible and get
Noah's Ark [5] or Samson and Delilah [6]? It can also handle some pretty bad
misspellings (levitakus 19:19 [7] anyone?). One of the respondents mentioned
it would be nice if The Electric King James Bible [8] was available via
Gopher [9].
Well, yeah, I do have a gopher site [10], so it wasn't all that difficult to
present a similar interface [11] (in fact, it uses the same data files as the
web version). So of course now you can get your Noah's Ark story [12] and
Samson and Delilah story [13] from gopherspace. And any other Bible story you
care to, just as long as you know where in the Bible it resides.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/09/23.1
[2]
http://literature.conman.org/bible/
[3]
https://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html
[4]
http://literature.conman.org/bible/
[5]
http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.6:9-9:17
[6]
http://bible.conman.org/kj/Judges.16:4-21
[7]
http://bible.conman.org/kj/levitakus.19:19
[8]
http://literature.conman.org/bible/
[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
[10]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2018/01/09.1
[11]
gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/1Bible:
[12]
gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/0Bible:Genesis.6:9-9:17
[13]
gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/0Bible:Judges.16:4-21
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