| Why a Gopher site in 2025? | |
| Back to the start | |
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| Well... Why not? There's DOZENS of us still using Gopher! ;P | |
| The contents below explain it all better than I ever could: | |
| (considering the very ephemeral nature of the gopherverse when | |
| compared to the web, I've taken the -- arguably morally gray -- | |
| liberty of storing local copies of those articles) | |
| <-- Articles -----------------------------------------------------> | |
| "Down the gopher hole", by Nicolas Herry | |
| "Down the gopher hole", by Nicolas Herry (local mirror) | |
| "Why is Gopher still relevant?", by Cameron Kaiser | |
| "Why is Gopher still relevant?", by Cameron Kaiser (local mirror) | |
| "Why does this site look so crappy?", by lostnbronx | |
| "Why does this site look so crappy?", by lostnbronx (local mirror) | |
| "Why should I care about Gopher?", by John Mercouris | |
| "Why should I care about Gopher?", by John Mercouris (local text-only mirror) | |
| <-- Collections --------------------------------------------------> | |
| "Why Gopher", by Ben Collver | |
| <-- Stats --------------------------------------------------------> | |
| System uptime: 83 days, 9:49 hrs * Gopher uptime: 5d 10h 8m 25s | |
| Visits since 2025-09-15: 4661 (846 valid, 3777 bots, 38 on queue) | |
| "Gopherhole" last updated on 2025-12-17 15:41:58 (UTC). | |
| This section last updated on 2025-12-17 01:05:26 (UTC). | |
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