| Floodgap Systems gopher root |
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Welcome to Gopherspace!
These documents and files should help you get started with
using and creating gopher content.
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| Does this gopher menu look correct? |
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-- All about gopher ----------------------------------------------- |
| A Brief Introduction to Gopherspace -- READ ME FIRST! |
| Why is gopher still relevant? |
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"Thinking of it like that, a method of easily serving directories
of data, rather than a scaled down web makes the whole thing more
appealing I think." -- Rob Sayers
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| Robert Bigelow: Gopher & Gopherspace |
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| Wired 08/2010: The Web Is Dead. Long Live The Internet. |
| (Wired 08/2010. We'll take this down if Wired objects.)
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| The creators of Gopherspace at UMN (Star Tribune 11/5/01) |
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| Using your web browser to explore Gopherspace |
| (and why you shouldn't use Internet Explorer) |
| The Overbite Project: Gopher clients for mobile and desktop (OverbiteWX, OverbiteNX, Overbite Android) |
| (download Overbite clients for your operating system
or browser, including Firefox!) |
| Patches and clients for other legacy platforms |
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-- Creating your own gopher ---------------------------------------
Create your own gopherspace and come forward into the past!
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| The SDF Member PHLOGOSPHERE |
| Don't have your own server? Create it for free at SDF! Or, if you
have your own Unix machine with Perl, install |
| The Bucktooth gopher server |
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Then get started creating your own content. Take a look at the |
| The Gopher Toybox: sample gophermaps to create your own server |
| to download a sample set of files you can modify yourself!
This is public domain.
-- Share your gopherspace -----------------------------------------
Now that it's running, tell everyone about it!
Get a dual-purpose social media link with the fld.gp shortener: |
| Floodgap Gopher Shortener Service |
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Did you just put a completely new server online?
Tell us about your new server and Veronica will come index it: |
| New gopher servers since 1999 |
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-- Reference documentation ---------------------------------------- |
| Technical specifications, RFCs, documents |
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** Points to ponder:
[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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| "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" |
| by Neil Stephenson |