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