Gopher Novice - Part IV.
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Cont. [Gopher Novice - Part III].
Two months
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It's about two months of Gophersphere browsing. I've realised that first
occasional experiments became small habit. I like to look at [Bongusta]
aggregator. I was using the most obvious gopher browser - lynx.
Lagrange beautifulness
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But lats week I figured out that [Lagrange] is supporting Gemini and
Gopher protocol. The bigger and nicer surprise is that also Lagrange for
mobiles support Gopher protocol. This discovery moved whole Gophersphere
a bit closer because it's easier to look at it on mobile, instead of
mindlessly staring at social-media in every time when I waiting for
e.g. bus etc.
Lagrange is know for its beautiful UI, and beautifulness is the same
for both of protocols displayed on mobile screen. This new form of
presentation for Gopher content makes it's more modern. I've started
to look at it more often.
Gopher (21st century) state is stable
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One of the Gopher pros is that (now) its state is "stable". There are
only that people who want to be here, everything else were lost years
ago. There are no many experimental pages nor phlogs. So when we are
reading something there, for sure there almost endless archive next to
it. Geminispace is something opposite to it, there are much more content,
but it's like living inside some simulated annealing algorithm. So
there are many capsules, gemlogs, sometimes with only a few posts. It's
seems that Geminispace is changing all the time. Geinispace is still
creating its foundations. Many people are joining, and many of them
are abandoning, or putting to sleep, their projects.
Gopher was volatile even in 2003
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In the same time Gopher is volatile. I've written it before but
referencing present time. But its volatilization seems to have
long history. I spotted [Gopher Manifesto 2000-2002] and most of its
linked content has gone. I must look at available (literally, eg. [2007
Gopherspace Mirror]) archives of Gopher. Easier is looking at archives of
WWW. One of the WWW links noted in manifesto was [Surfing... Gopherspace
by Bob Brand 2003] where we can see:
``
(...) Gopherspace and Veronica are on the critical list. When you read
this, they may already be dead. Many links have been broken. This
piece of the Internet quickly slips into c-history. Lost but not
forgotten by the old timers. (...)
So in 2003 "the Old Timers" of Gophersphere were aware that most of
content has gone. Articles like manifesto, which describe its state and
life inside it, are rare, and time travelers, as I, can't easily see
that state of Gophersphere. I don't know what is the oldest Gophersphere
mirror. In [2006 QUUX Gopher Mirror] I see in description some 2002
dates, so it's at least before creation time of cited sentence. It's
probably don't enough.
It would be great to organise some Gopher archive like Archive.org do it
for webpages. Not inside archive file, but available from small-net. With
some kind of fancy timeline.
Gopher, Gemini, and the rise of the small Internet
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Also last week, I spotted also on Mastodon article [Gopher, Gemini, and
the rise of the small Internet]. I've read it and start thinking about my
being a newbie in Gophersphere. I started to thinking that maybe I know
a bit more than today's novice. I was here and there. I have my point
of view on it. I have some habit. So I am promoted to the next level.
~ [Gopher Novice - Part III]:
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/szczezuja/novice/2021-06-30-Gopher-novice-part-iii.txt
~ [Bongusta]:
gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta
~ [Lagrange]:
gemini://skyjake.fi/lagrange/index.gmi
~ [Gopher, Gemini, and the rise of the small Internet]:
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/245/The-Rise-of-the-Small-Internet
~ [Gopher Manifesto 2000-2002]:
gopher://gopher.su:70/0/gopher-manifesto
~ [Surfing... Gopherspace by Bob Brand 2003]:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030814011718/http://www.thebee.com:80/bweb/iinfo15.htm
~ [2007 Gopherspace Mirror]:
https://archive.org/details/2007-gopher-mirror
~ [2006 QUUX Gopher Mirror]:
https://archive.org/details/quux-gopher-mirror
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