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Y GOPHER SITE |
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pretty awesome. Once a week ~bradley sends out a message and invites |
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everyone to go and do some challenge each week. |
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This way I found the following message in my ~ mail this week: |
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:21:43 -0500 (EST) |
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From: Bradley Gannon <[email protected]> |
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To: [email protected] |
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Subject: Weekly Webpage Workshop #5 |
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User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01 |
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Dear ~club: |
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I saw that many of you made (or are even currently making) it snow on your |
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pages. Well done. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to make it happen, |
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being that I approach CSS in much the same way a ferret approaches a game of |
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shuffleboard---that is, incoherently and more or less according to |
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chance---but at the last moment I managed to find a post online that was |
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simple enough for me to understand. The results are about as bad as expected |
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(complete illegibility), but alas, it's only exactly what I asked for. I do… |
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it will last through the week on my page. |
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Well, ~club, here we are. The year of middle-distance predictions is upon u… |
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How many of us will turn out to have been wrong about what we thought we'd … |
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doing with ourselves in 2020? I remember reading an article in a magazine |
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about 15 years ago that claimed we'd all be rid of cables by now because |
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long-distance wireless charging would be ubiquitous. This and similar drivel |
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will fall to the slowly-advancing bulldozer blade of time this year. A sham… |
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really, since the only thing 2020 did wrong was be a round number for |
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futurists to pluck out of the timeline |
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But! It's not all bad. New years mean new opportunities for learning, growi… |
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and all that stuff you learned on PBS. This week, I propose that we look |
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forward into the new year by pulling something out from the past and taking… |
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with us. |
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I'm not familiar with gopher, but some light reading has revealed that it's |
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a way of organizing information on the Internet that sort of got its lunch |
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eaten by the Web. Many of you have more grey in your beards than me (visible |
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or not) and know first-hand what gopher is like. In any case, ~club, your t… |
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this week is to do something with your gopher space here on tilde.club. |
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A "hello world" will suffice, but I encourage you to do what you can to make |
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it interesting. When you do, be sure to post it here so we can all check it |
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out! |
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Since I don't personally know much about gopher, I haven't even checked to … |
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if anyone is using it on this server. I haven't seen anyone mention it, but |
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that doesn't necessarily mean anything. If you've already got something goi… |
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over there, great! I'll see you there. If not, then I encourage you to take |
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this small step with me. |
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To the gopherhole! |
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Bradley |
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While I was already working on my own gopher site, I had also already |
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broken it again so I took it upon myself to do the following: |
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1. Get my gopher site fixed. |
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2. Make sure it mirrors my http ~ |
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3. Get a cool logo |
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So since I wasn't able to get spaces to work properly in a linking line, |
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I just gone and s/ /./g'ed on the logo. It doesn't look as good as |
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with the spaces, but this works. |
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Go check the gophersite out: gopher://tilde.club/1/~steph |
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[Screenshot of the gopher mirror] |
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COMMENTS: |
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Add a comment by mailing to [email protected] and putting [c8b18] in the subject |
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ther blog posts by ~steph |
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Going off the grid - part 2 |
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020-03-08 - 20:03 |
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Going off the grid |
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020-02-14 - 11:11 |
