I can haz smol internet!
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It is with delight that I announce the launch of my first
ever pholg! \o/
Even though I had heard about Gopher and even seen
a small number of Gopherspaces via proxies, it never
occured to me to dive in and take a closer look at it
until I attended this year's bitreich conference online :
gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2022
This was my first encounter with bitreich too. All
of it happened thanks to jrmu who did a presentation
at the conference about IRCNow: The Users' Network
:
https://ircnow.org . At first, even attending the
conference itself felt intimidating, because most of the
information was presented via a Gopherspace. The software
setup they used to host the event was very unique. It took
some effort at first to be able to navigate the pages, and
figure out what should be done, where to connect etc. The
second day of the conference was - almost - entirely about
Gopher. Those sessions made a great deal of sense to me.
That is when I realized that I already had access to a
place (SDF!) where I could learn further by actually doing
it.
So the primary goal of this Gopherspace in the near future
would be to function as a place for me to explore the
Gopher protocol and learn more about it. In doing so, I
will try to write about whatever that interests me at the
time of writing.
I am not a tech savvy person like most of the users on SDF
or in the Gophersphere in general. I did not grow up with
computers or fall in love with computing at some stage in
my life. I learned to deal with computers because they
crashed into our lives and there was no way to escape. All
of a sudden it became a thing to follow a "computer course"
in order to acquire a set of skills that was considered to
be so vital in making oneself employable. There is nothing
romantic or interesting about that. It can get interesting
when we regain control over our lives by learning how to
coexist better with computers.
I really like the simplicity of Gopher. This looks and
feels very similar to the way I wanted to publish on the
web: write what you want to publish, simply upload and keep
things organized by linking to it from a central place
(or a 'home page'). I don't know, this analogy may be
technically incomplete in explaining how Gopher works. But
that is primarily why I liked it at first.
- LohanG |
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