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Endangered Software Society | |
Welcome to the official gopher for the nascent ESS, a society | |
dedicated to preserving our civilization's software heritage. There | |
are already a number of organizations with similar aims -- several | |
linked below -- but one thing which differentiates the ESS from some | |
others is that the ESS strives to preserve the usefulness of old | |
software in addition to the code itself. | |
Employing Gopher to expose our resources to the Internet is a perfect | |
distillation of our mission and our values. The gopher protocol is one | |
of the earliest hypertext protocols. Despite being almost entirely | |
supplanted by the World Wide Web, it remains useful even today. It is | |
an interesting alternative to HTTP and even has some advantages over | |
its more successful sibling. | |
This site is very much a work in progress, so please revisit every so | |
often to see what we've been up to. Also, at this early stage, the | |
Society is primarily an extension of the founder's interests, there | |
being only one member. At times I may be a little loose in my usage of | |
personal pronouns, but I will try to stick with first person plural | |
when speaking for the Society as I envision it. | |
Software Media Preservation | |
Games | |
Gopher | |
Contribute | |
Other software preservation projects: | |
Cyber1 | |
Software Preservation Society | |
Software Heritage | |
Other useful and/or interesting gophers: | |
Floodgap Systems gopher root |