About the owner of this Gopher server
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Hello there. My name is Martin Kukac (the letter c is supposed to have
caron, with pronunciation similar to the English "ch" in "chocolate"),
I'm currently 38 and this text is being typed in Prague, capital of
the Czech Republic, where I currently live with my wife and son.
As far as I can remember, I always was an IT guy. It started with a ZX
Spectrum clone in the first half of the nineties and never stopped,
just the ZX Spectrum was replaced with several PC-compatibles and
PowerMacintoshes since then. Well, to be honest, it wasn't replaced -
I'm into retro-computing, so good old Speccy still has the place on my
desk as well as many other computers
Even though I do other stuff (geocaching, HAM and CB radio), you can
expect retro-computing and computing in general being the main topic
of this gopherhole. You have just been warned.
About the server itself
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I remember the Gopher from the final days of its widespread use. Even
back then (the Netscape 3 Gold era), I preferred the clean and simple
Gopher way of accessing data. At the time I had a huge old Hungarian
286-based desktop with no Internet connection. Everything I found
on gopher in our high school computer lab could be stored to a floppy
disk and studied at home in plain MS-DOS environment. You couldn't do
easily the same thing with WWW/HTML stuff and you certainly can't do
it now, when even simple web pages have the size of hard drive in that
286-clone.
Gopher is beautiful way to share information with almost no overhead.
No matter if I read gopher on a 30-year-old, 68000-based machine with
1 MB of RAM or my quad-core multi-gigahertz and multi-gigabyte
smartphone, gopher is always performing better. That's why I installed
a gopher daemon on my virtual server in 2011 and created this little
gopher hole.
As it is currently the only gopher server on CZ domain, it has both
English and Czech parts. International visitors will probably be most
interested in my phlog aggregator called Bongusta!, which aggregates
news on more than fifty phlogs. For Czech visitors there is some
useful local stuff - news and weather. Feel free to leave me a short
note in guestbook, if you like it here!
