Gopherhole: Redux 2019
                            2019-02-21

I've been  happily noodling  around the interstices  of the  web of
late.

I'm still super  happy with my nanoreader[1] and  using it everyday
has reminded me of the beauty of plaintext. Text _is_ content.

In that  spirit, I've gone  back to using gopher.  I've **finally**
got what I missed when I wrote about this three years ago[2] - text
doesn't  need  to  be  the  web! Text  can  just  be  itself,  text
_should_ just be itself. My previous effort missed this fundamental
principle, and looking back now, I can see that this was largely to
blame for my walking away from that experiment.

Coming back  to the  idea of  gopher, with that  in mind,  has been
**liberating**.

Some of my  content (not my microposts) is  available on gopher[3],
as this  post will be.  I've been doing this  for a few  weeks now,
feeling my  way into an  area I once  knew well, and  I'm satisfied
with the results.

I'd love  to hear  from anyone  else who's  using gopher,  or who's
using  older text-focused  network systems  in interesting  ways. I
still  want to  love  the web.  I still  want  to find  communities
working  to  deliver  on  the   promise  there  once  was  in  this
technology.


	References________________________________________________
[1] 	https://ringdown.ascraeus.org/dgold/nanoreader
[2] 	https://ascraeus.org/running-down-a-gopherhole/
[3] 	gopher://ascraeus.org

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