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[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected Gopher servers to
be one large distributed entity; thus, we speak of "the Gopher", with
its many small parts, spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is
always growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't locate
it; it's always there, but you can't see it. ... The Gopher is the
largest and most practical example of applied pantheism in the history
of mankind.
-- Hahn; Stout. The Internet Complete Reference (1994)
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Gopher clients | |
Applications for various operating systems. | |
Gopher proxy with Opera | |
Configuring Opera 12 to use a Gopher proxy. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Videos | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | |
mpm_gopher.mp4 (70 MiB) | |
A rare interview with some of the founders of Gopher: Mark McCahill and Farhad Anklesaria, also includes some early screenshots. | |
Gopher_World_Tour_T-Shirt_on MTV.mpg (772 KiB) | |
A 7 second video of Adam Curry fulfilling the terms of his commercial use of Internet Gopher server software license from the University of Minnesota. | |
Internet_Show_12_-_Gopher.mp4 (21.8 MiB) | |
"Since Gopher is a very popular service, gopherspace is a huge and expanding part of the Internet." | |
gopher.avi (241 KiB) | |
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Articles | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ The following Gopher documents are mostly taken from: | |
Offbeat Internet | |
--- Vogue Growth Era -------------------------------------------------- | |
Usenet_Gopher_Announcement.txt | |
On_the_Trail_of_the_Internet_Gopher.txt | |
Gopher_spiel.txt | |
The_Internet_Gopher.txt | |
Lets_Gopher_it.txt | |
IUBio_Gopher_hole.txt | |
CCSO_through_Gopher.txt | |
Summer_Go-pher-it_Workshops.txt | |
Tailoring_Gopher_Services_for_Individual_Users.pdf | |
APS_Server_Anniversary.pdf | |
A_Rolling_Gopher_Gathers_No_Moss.pdf | |
Gopher_from_MOO.pdf | |
Services_Available_on_The_Internet.rtf | |
Using_Gopher_on_the_Internet.pdf | |
A_Preliminary_Design_for_a_3-D_Spatial_User_Interface_for_Internet_Gopher.txt | |
Announcing_GopherVR.txt | |
GopherVR_now_available.txt | |
Announcing_TurboGopher.txt | |
Evolution_of_Internet_Gopher.pdf | |
Internet_Diving.txt | |
Gopher_Jewels_Design_Change.txt | |
WWW_vs_Gopher.txt | |
--- Mass Defection Era ------------------------------------------------ | |
Gopher_and_Veronica.pdf | |
Who_Killed_Gopher.txt | |
Gopher_Jewels_Closing.txt | |
SEC_Gopher_discontinued.txt | |
Mother_Gopher_Obituary.txt | |
TCP-IP_Guide.txt | |
Where_Have_all_the_Gophers_Gone.txt | |
Interview_with_Paul_Lindner.txt | |
Bob_Alberti.txt | |
About_Gopher.txt | |
Gopher_Manifesto.txt | |
Gopher_Underground.txt | |
Gopher_still_going.txt | |
Down_the_Gopher_Hole.rtf | |
The_death_of_WELLgopher.txt | |
JumpJet_Gopher_terminated.txt | |
How_Gopher_nearly_trumped_the_web.txt | |
Bandwidth_and_Gopher.txt | |
--- Stagnancy Era ------------------------------------------------- | |
Gopher_tunnels_on.pdf | |
OmniWeb_now_includes_Gopher_support.txt | |
Fun_Sites_from_the_Early_Internet.txt | |
Long_Live_Gopher.txt | |
Why_is_Gopher_Still_Relevant.txt | |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GopherCon | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Documents of various Gopher Conventions from the 1990s. --- GopherCon '92 ----------------------------------------------------- | |
GopherCon_'92_Trip_Report.txt | |
--- GopherCon '93 ----------------------------------------------------- | |
GopherCon_'93_Trip_Report.txt | |
GopherCon_Mar93_Minutes.txt | |
--- GopherCon '94 ----------------------------------------------------- | |
Directions_to_Radisson.txt | |
GopherCon94_Registration_Info.txt | |
Attendee_List_through_Friday_April_15.txt | |
Agenda_at_a_Glance_FINAL.txt | |
Agenda_in_detail_FINAL.txt | |
Presentations: | |
GEN1 = 1994_State_of_the_Gopher.txt | |
EQ1 = Information_Quality.txt | |
COL1 = K-12_Learning_Resource.txt | |
APP7 = WSGopher_a_Windows_Gopher+_client.txt | |
APP12 = Running_WWW_on_top_of_Gopher.txt | |
APP14 = Growing_the_MIT_Libraries_Gopher.zip | |
Papers: | |
Go4zgate.txt | |
GopherSQL.txt | |
SQLEvents.txt | |
SafeGopher.txt | |
3Dgopherspace.txt | |
--- GopherCon '95 ----------------------------------------------------- | |
Directions_to_Radisson.txt | |
GopherCon95_Announcement.txt | |
Agenda.txt | |
Papers: | |
Go4zgate.txt | |
ScreenScrape.txt | |
WebbedGopher.txt | |
Hyper-G.txt | |
Cluster.txt | |
3DUnixServer.txt | |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | RFCs | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Standards referencing Gopher: | |
rfc1436.txt - The Internet Gopher Protocol | |
rfc1580.txt - Guide to Network Resource Tools | |
rfc1594.txt - Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions | |
rfc1614.txt - Network Access to Multimedia Information | |
rfc1689.txt - Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups | |
rfc1727.txt - A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service | |
rfc1738.txt - Uniform Resource Locators (URL) | |
rfc1808.txt - Relative Uniform Resource Locators | |
rfc2219.txt - Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services | |
rfc2396.txt - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax | |
rfc4266.txt - The Gopher URI Scheme | |
Enhancement proposals: | |
Gopher+ | |
+MENU block suggestion | |
Changes to RFC1738 and RFC1808 | |
Proposed Item-type Changes | |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Licencing Fiasco of 1993 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ The following Gopher documents are mostly taken from: | |
Offbeat Internet | |
Gopher-Software-Licencing-Policy_ANCIENT.txt | |
This policy hung a dark cloud over GopherCon '93. | |
Gopher-Software-Licencing-Policy_NEW.txt | |
The lifting of prohibition had little impact, occuring seven years too late. | |
Peers Condemning the Ancient Gopher Licence | |
UMN Justifying their Ancient Gopher Licence | |
Retrospection on the disasterous impact of licencing Gopher |