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In 1991, the Gopher protocol was born -- a method of searching for and | |
distributing information on the Internet. Gopher was intended to be | |
easy to implement and use, and for a little while, it was very | |
popular. | |
Of course, HTTP and the World Wide Web launched right around that | |
time, and it wasn't long before the Web was proven to be a better | |
platform. Gopher has survived to this day, but the WWW reigns supreme. | |
Despite its lack of popularity, Gopher is still an awesome protocol - | |
it's extremely hackable and fun to work on. People like to put random | |
stuff on their gopher servers -- their blog, articles they write, etc. | |
I decided that I wanted to write an interface to the single greatest | |
source of information on the Internet -- Wikipedia. | |
So, I built Gopherpedia. It runs on Gopher2000 | |
(https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000), a Ruby library I wrote for | |
developing Gopher services. The web proxy to Gopherpedia is GoPHPer | |
(https://github.com/muffinista/gophper-proxy), which I also wrote. | |
more about the Gopher protocol | |
gopher2000 - a ruby gopher server | |
gophper-proxy - a modern PHP gopher proxy | |
back to gopherpedia |