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=                               Phlog                                =
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                             Introduction                             
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A phlog, also called an rlog, is a type of daybook, similar to a blog,
that runs off a Gopher protocol server. These phlogs are typically
hosted from home servers running some sort of UNIX operating system,
because a user account on the server is usually required to update the
content. There are quite a few phlogs floating around gopherspace but
the vast majority are not updated regularly.

Phlogs usually arranged as a directory structure with the title or
date of each entry, has a separate folder for archives. It is possible
to have a few sentences under each link to a blog entry as a summary,
or to host the phlog as one single text or HTML file; however, HTML
files cannot be read by some pure gopher clients.

Most phlogs are maintained by hand as a series of text files. Open
source software exists to convert posts from a WordPress blog into
plain text files that can be accessed using the gopher protocol.

The word "phlog" is derived from "blog" but with the "ph" from
"gopher" instead of the "b" from "web" and appears to have been coined
by Jeff Woodall on April 22, 2003.


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A phlog can also be known as a gopherlog. The first known usage of the
term "gopherlog" was by George Hotelling as an April Fool's Day joke
on April 1, 2005.


                            External links                            
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*[http://db.tidbits.com/article/8909 Down the gopher hole]
*[gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ Floodgap Gopher-HTTP gateway]
*[gopher://sdf.org:70/1/ SDF Gopher] (gopher link),
[https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/1/ web
proxy link]
*[gopher://port70.net/1log Port70 Phlog] (used to be Hactar.net)
(gopher link)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181021232731/https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/sdf.org/1/phlogs/
SDF gopher club] Phlogs on the SDF Public Access UNIX System


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