Gophersphere is (still!) volatile
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Gophersphere was crowded at the beginning of the 90s. And it was empty
at the end of the same decade.  We are aware that most of that content
was lost. The only  archive which is available is from  2007 and we are
naming  it  The  Wayback  Machine.  The same  as  that  from  Internet
Archive. But Internet  Archive which is operating  The Wayback Machine
for WWW  has 802  billion web  pages, not some  small amount  of final
stage content of Gophersphere.  Probably  there isn't any other backup
of Gophersphere from the earlier years. And we can only weep for that.

But it  isn't better  now.  I'm  trying to  note the  most interesting
findings on  the Gophersphere. Today I'd  like to go back  to my notes
from     a     year     ago     (2022.04.24)     when     I     noted:
gopher://origin.rxivist.org/  as   the  service   providing  "Trending
Science  Papers". And...  the server  is  silent today.  Maybe it's  a
temporary failure, or the author didn't persevere in his enthusiasm.

That is leading to the conclusion that we are still losing interesting
content.  And  we  should  have  a real  possibility  to  archive  the
Gophersphere.  Or maybe we should  be more active in digg-dot-com-like
Gopher services and start exploring Gophersphere more seriously.

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