Authentic 1990s experiences
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Last week I try to explore Gophersphere more. I posted some links
through Mastodon and my Gemini Tinylog. I had been thinking that I saw
most of the unique content of Gophersphere. Then I spotted [Magical
Fish]. It's a big thing, with many new links and proxies to text
information feeds. What is more, it's operating with "Minnesota
traditions".
I suddenly start thinking, that for sure there are more places, where
I haven't been on Gopher. So I start digging more, and more into it.
I spotted then [Rxivist], text proxy to a new scientific paper that is
trending on the big-net. And [Lobste.rs] which is a text proxy for the
HTTP version of an open Reddit-like service. Then I read that [cside]
is creating a text proxy for BBC news. And it's been happening in our
eyes, now. So Gophersphere is still active.
I start to use [Show 5 random servers] on OGUP. I looked at some
games-themed Gopherholes. One of the most interesting was [Smoldering
Wizard's Manse] where you can automate your RPG game by generating
characters or rolling dice. It's a hole that could be really useful
during a real RPG game.
More time I spent on [Nemesis MUD]. I even installed a special client
for MUD called TinTin++. It's less connected with Gophersphere, but
this MUD has some Gopher interface (for active players, and manual).
And I hadn't been expecting more special things, which could
happen. But, today I spotted another link with [d1337]
Gopherhole. There is a small set of articles called "Authentic 1990s
experiences". I was pleasantly surprised because for the first time I
met a topic similar to the one I deal with. So how the net had been
looking like in the '90s. Every who is still remembers this should
write it down.
~ [Magical Fish]
gopher://magical.fish/
~ [Rxivist]
gopher://origin.rxivist.org/
~ [Lobste.rs]
gopher://typed-hole.org/1/lobsters
~ [cside]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/cside/2022-04-24-further-work-on-bbc-news-gopher
~ [Show 5 random servers]
gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/ogup/rnd
~ [Smoldering Wizard's Manse]
gopher://gopher.smolderingwizard.com/1/rpg/player_and_gm_resources
~ [Nemesis MUD]
gopher://mud.nemesis.de/
~ [d1337]
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/d1337/
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