So...anyone still using Gopher?

It still exists, despite the web. I use it at times...there are distilled-to-text feeds from news sites (eat THAT, RSS). And it still provides
decent access to old file archives...was looking for some old Amiga stuff and found it quite easily.

I wish more people would use it. Long live text!

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So...anyone still using Gopher?

I have used gopher quite a bit over the years. I don't have a gopher client installed at the moment and the plug in I used with firefox became outdated, I'll have to look into that and see if that has changed.

Gopher is a good read only protocol. As long as your not posting or uploading it'll do just fine.

It still exists, despite the web. I use it at times...there are
distilled-to-text feeds from news sites (eat THAT, RSS). And it still provide
decent access to old file archives...was looking for some old Amiga stuff and found it quite easily.

Sometimes I go looking for old files that I have missed or deleted I have a hard time finding on the web today. FTP searches were always good and they seem
to be hard to find now too. I'll have to check some gopher sites and see what I can find.

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Re: Gopher
By: Chicken Head to All on Fri Sep 06 2019 05:30 pm

So...anyone still using Gopher?

It can be fun to look though some of the sites. I haven't used it in a while though.

One thing I thought was cool was gopherpedia.com. You can acess wikipedia from it, but using the gopher protocol. There is also a telnet version of this, but I found this far more pleasent to use.

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I use it regularlly. There is a lot of PHLOGS that I read (blogs in gopherspace) which are hosted usually on SDF or someone's site.

There's also gopherfs a fuse filesystem simular to sshfs or webfs that allows one to mount a remote gopher server as a local filesystem. This one is great since it gives me the chance to mount several Phlogs under my BBS's file
folder and able to access gopher from the machines at the Interactive
Computer Museum in Dallas makerspace or quick scanning using standard unix tools.

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Re: Gopher
By: Chicken Head to All on Fri Sep 06 2019 05:30 pm

So...anyone still using Gopher?

It still exists, despite the web. I use it at times...there are distilled-to-text feeds from news sites (eat THAT, RSS). And it still provi decent access to old file archives...was looking for some old Amiga stuff an found it quite easily.

I wish more people would use it. Long live text!

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I still use gopher. I even operate a gopher hole at

gopher://gcpp.world

We have a growing community that is really friendly. Freenode has a number of gopher channels and the members are helpful. People with coding skills have created interesting scripts that scrape html content from websites and dump them on a gopher page. One even does this with RSS feeds and, essentially, any of the feeds I have been reading are now read solely on that gopher site. No ads, no cookies, trackers, autoplaying html5 vids... Just pure text.

WElcome to the club.

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Re: Gopher
By: Daniel to Chad S on Sat Jan 18 2020 03:48 am

Yes gopherpedia is my goto nowdays.

I spoke to the guy who scripted it and he said it takes very little code and generates the pages on the fly after it's fetched from pedia.

Did you discover gophereddit yet?

I have never heard of that before. However, I welcome any attempt to expand Gopher's usefullness. Gopher would be a nice way to look at a news site without all the ads, some of which appear as part of the article. I'm sure they would just find another way to put those in though.

Now I'm going to have to do a search on gophereddit. ;)

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Re: Gopher
By: Chad S to Daniel on Sun Jan 19 2020 11:31 am

Re: Gopher
By: Daniel to Chad S on Sat Jan 18 2020 03:48 am

Yes gopherpedia is my goto nowdays.

I spoke to the guy who scripted it and he said it takes very little code

and

generates the pages on the fly after it's fetched from pedia.

Did you discover gophereddit yet?

I have never heard of that before. However, I welcome any attempt to expand Gopher's usefullness. Gopher would be a nice way to look at a news site without all the ads, some of which appear as part of the article. I'm sure they would just find another way to put those in though.

Now I'm going to have to do a search on gophereddit. ;)

- Mr. Cool

it's on asd.org's gopher, in the new servers listing..

gopher://gopherddit.com

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Re: Gopher
By: Daniel to Chad S on Mon Jan 20 2020 01:42 pm

Now I'm going to have to do a search on gophereddit. ;)

- Mr. Cool

it's on asd.org's gopher, in the new servers listing..

Thank, I was able to locate it. This makes me want to download Netscape 4 to use as a gopher client agian. I actually have a gopher client on my old smartphone as well.

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Thank, I was able to locate it. This makes me want to download Netscape
4 to use as a gopher client agian. I actually have a gopher client on

Luckilly, one does not have to use netscape these days. floodgap has a http gateway and surprise; lynx, w3m, and links supports gopher still. links is actually my choice one since it supports images, html5/css and generally a decent bit of javascript.

Another option is using gopherfs from 9front. Then the browser becomes redundant since what ever gopher hole one is viewing is via the a virtual file system.

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Re: Gopher
By: DENZUKO to Chad S on Sat Feb 08 2020 08:00 am

Luckilly, one does not have to use netscape these days. floodgap has a http gateway and surprise; lynx, w3m, and links supports gopher still. links is actually my choice one since it supports images, html5/css and generally a decent bit of javascript.

I have used Lynx for this, as well as the CLI based Gopher program. I'm also familior with the floodgap system. It would have been interesting to try out GopherVR, although I think that would have been more of a novelty than anything.

I liked the look as Netscape 4, so I had installed that on my Linux maching back about 8 years ago and used it for that purpose. It was Netscape 4.8, which was the latest and gratest in that major version number and at the time, it was the only one that could still kinda load google.com without spitting out endless error messages or crashing. Fun fact: the AIM client that came with it stillworked at the time.

There is another client that I have on my old iMac G3, running Debian, but i forget what it's called. It has a nice simple browser look to it.

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Chad S wrote to DENZUKO <=-

I'm also familior with the floodgap system. It would have been interesting to try out GopherVR, although I think that would have been more of a novelty than anything.

I used GopherVR on my Powerbook 5300 waaaay back, and you're right, it was
an interesting novelty, but too slow and cumbersome for gopher
browsing...

I still drag it out now and then for laughs.



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