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Floodgap Systems gopher root |
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Welcome to Gopherspace! |
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These documents and files should help you get started with |
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using and creating gopher content. |
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Does this gopher menu look correct? |
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-- All about gopher ----------------------------------------------- |
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A Brief Introduction to Gopherspace -- READ ME FIRST! |
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Why is gopher still relevant? |
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"Thinking of it like that, a method of easily serving directories |
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of data, rather than a scaled down web makes the whole thing more |
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appealing I think." -- Rob Sayers |
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Robert Bigelow: Gopher & Gopherspace |
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Wired 08/2010: The Web Is Dead. Long Live The Internet. |
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(Wired 08/2010. We'll take this down if Wired objects.) |
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The creators of Gopherspace at UMN (Star Tribune 11/5/01) |
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Using your web browser to explore Gopherspace |
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(and why you shouldn't use Internet Explorer) |
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The Overbite Project: Gopher clients for mobile and desktop (OverbiteWX, Overbi… |
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(download Overbite clients for your operating system |
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or browser, including Firefox!) |
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Patches and clients for other legacy platforms |
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-- Creating your own gopher --------------------------------------- |
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Create your own gopherspace and come forward into the past! |
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The SDF Member PHLOGOSPHERE |
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Don't have your own server? Create it for free at SDF! Or, if you |
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have your own Unix machine with Perl, install |
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The Bucktooth gopher server |
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Then get started creating your own content. Take a look at the |
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The Gopher Toybox: sample gophermaps to create your own server |
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to download a sample set of files you can modify yourself! |
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This is public domain. |
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-- Share your gopherspace ----------------------------------------- |
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Now that it's running, tell everyone about it! |
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Get a dual-purpose social media link with the fld.gp shortener: |
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Floodgap Gopher Shortener Service |
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Did you just put a completely new server online? |
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Tell us about your new server and Veronica will come index it: |
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New gopher servers since 1999 |
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-- Reference documentation ---------------------------------------- |
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Technical specifications, RFCs, documents |
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** Points to ponder: |
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[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected |
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Gopher servers to be one large distributed entity; thus, |
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we speak of "the Gopher", with its many small parts, |
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spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is always |
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growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't |
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locate it; it's always there, but you can't see it. ... |
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The Gopher is the largest and most practical example of |
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applied pantheism in the history of mankind. |
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Hahn; Stout. The Internet Complete Reference (1994) |
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"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" |
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by Neil Stephenson |
