Welcome to Magical.Fish!
This gopher hole is hosted in Minnesota, the birthplace of gopher, and by no less than a University of Minnesota graduate. I am glad to carry on the Minnesota gopher tradition, even while my alma matter does not.
Magical.fish is a modern gopher hole in Python Flask using Flask Gopher. It is a no-profit non-commercial hobby and labor of love, financed 100% by its operator. It exists for the pleasure of its operator and those in gopherspace who stumble across it. Its purpose is to continue and preserve the legacy of gopher protocol, to innovate, teach and entertain.
My goal for Magical.fish is to have something new for you every day. I do this by providing mobile gopher users with easy access to current and useful information.
Most text served here is not line formatted because I believe in the year 2020 and beyond, gopher browsers need to wrap text (and most of them do, anyway), particularly to serve the growing number of mobile gopher users on DiggieDog and Pocket Gopher with the best possible experience, as the writers of gopher protocol intended.
There is plenty to do today in gopherspace, so make gopher part of your daily online routine.
Why Gopher?
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Ug. Nother another "Why Gopher" post. I should not have to tell you 'why gopher', since you are already here. Instead let me ask... Why NOT Gopher?
To me, gopher is a useful text presentation layer, a different experience to the clutter of the web. Gopher serves up fast and low bandwidth, and is less invasive to your privacy.
Why Magical.fish?
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So why call this hole magical.fish, and not something more gopherish? I wish I had a good story behind it, but it just happened to be a domain I already owned. I think its memorable and lighthearted. Maybe someday it can be magical.gopher. Oh, snap! You can now access this site at
gopher://magical.gopher:71 by using OpenNIC.org DNS! Get your own free .gopher domain.
If you like this hole, please tell others about it and stop by often.
About the Sysop
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I am a fairly experienced computer user, and old enough to comfortably refer to myself as a sysop. I like tech for tech's sake, and enjoy when I can bend tech to my will. I formerly ran a r/cpm system in the early 80's that evolved into a popular Fidonet Opus BBS in the late 80's. In the 90's I ran a large ham radio board out of Chicago.
I have done it all, from ham radio (extra class), packet radio, compuserve, etc. I used AOL when it was just a big BBS. I watched the www grow up, and helped to make it the mess that it currently is. I presently work in the software industry, and prefer to spend my time on technical pursuits that inevitably result in no pecuniary return, yielding only satisfaction and fun.
Skol, Ski-U-Mah & Perge!
