Gophersphere is (still!) volatile
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Gophersphere was crowded at the beginning of the 90s. And it was empty
at the end of the same decade. We are aware that most of that content
was lost. The only archive which is available is from 2007 and we are
naming it The Wayback Machine. The same as that from Internet
Archive. But Internet Archive which is operating The Wayback Machine
for WWW has 802 billion web pages, not some small amount of final
stage content of Gophersphere. Probably there isn't any other backup
of Gophersphere from the earlier years. And we can only weep for that.
But it isn't better now. I'm trying to note the most interesting
findings on the Gophersphere. Today I'd like to go back to my notes
from a year ago (2022.04.24) when I noted:
gopher://origin.rxivist.org/ as the service providing "Trending
Science Papers". And... the server is silent today. Maybe it's a
temporary failure, or the author didn't persevere in his enthusiasm.
That is leading to the conclusion that we are still losing interesting
content. And we should have a real possibility to archive the
Gophersphere. Or maybe we should be more active in digg-dot-com-like
Gopher services and start exploring Gophersphere more seriously.
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@ Sun 26 Mar 2023 09:19:06 PM CEST
