Title:  Around Gopherspace
Date:  20190907
Tags:  me gopher
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And again, I find myself wanting to have responded to a number of other's phlog
entries but I usually read them during down time at work and forget to go back
and write a response by the time I am home.

I do want to make sure to mention mhj's BBS zine[0].  I love it!  Great info and
it's cool to see reviews of BBSes I would have otherwise never known about.
BBSes, for me, were magical things I heard people talk about but never had
access to in their time.  By the time I had a modem and knew enough about
computers, the internet was all anyone talked about anymore.  So BBSes are now a
forgotten gem I feel like I'm digging up to appreciate for what it was then and
what it still is now.

I'm looking forward to more about Solene's offline laptop[1] experiences.  I
want to do something similar, but I might use my RC2014 and homemade
terminal[2].  Without the need to interoperate through the web, your options are
limitless.  No reason I can't run CP/M on a Z80.

Solderpunk's ROOPHLOCH[3] is a great idea.  Even thought I already blew my shot
at the title[4], ;) I'm still looking forward to making some less extreme
entries.  It reminds me of "Extreme Ironing."  Anyone else remember that?

I am also enjoying several posts by KatolaZ about ed, the standard UNIX text
editor[5].  I have Michael W. Lucas' book 'Ed Mastery' which is great.  I've
started the book a couple times, but ed has never really stuck with me.  I'm
happy to have it hitting me from another angle.  It's encouraging me to keep
playing with it.

There's been more interesting things going on, but I'd have to back a week or so
and dig.  :(  But I'm reading and enjoying everything people are talking about
on Gopher.


[0] gopher://colorfield.space:70/1/~mhj/zine/
[1] gopher://dataswamp.org:70/0/~solene/article-offline-laptop.txt
[2] gopher://kagu-tsuchi.com:70/0/phlog/modern_terminal.txt
[3] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2019.txt
[4] gopher://kagu-tsuchi.com:70/0/phlog/rooflock-fail.txt
[5] gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~katolaz/phlog/20190505_ed_lists.txt
gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~katolaz/phlog/20190830_ed_lists_2.txt
gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~katolaz/phlog/20190905_ed_lists_3.txt

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