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Hello, World
July 12th, 2020
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This is my first post on the gopherverse.  Not very exciting, but I am
excited to explore this space more and see what can be done with it!

The idea of text- and document-based browing really intrigues me,
mostly because I find so much content on the general internet to be
trite or unrevolutionary.  There's a simplicity about text-only
browsing of documents to simply get information that is much more
appealing than firing up Firefox and waiting for tremendous amounts of
fluff to be sent over the wire.

The fact that I could boot up a Raspberry Pi Zero and load `lynx` to
be able to access this content is exciting as it takes me back to the
days of when I'd log on the BBSes or `telnet`ing in to my local
library to browse their catalog and place holds.

There's a quiet joy in the simple but effective, and that's what I am
to discover in this space.

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