#InternetGopher

2025-05-16

Why yes, I'm playing songs off the Gopher server I'm running on the Raspberry Pi that I use as a jukebox.
#RFC1436 #Gopher #InternetGopher #RaspberryPi #retro #pygopherd

2025-05-16

Sue has built system administration tools using Gopher. As expensive commercial tools encrust more and more junk on the https protocol these kinds of super-simple open-source solutions are going to gain interest.
#gopher #opensource #retro #InternetGopher
instagram.com/p/DJZRCYAxgDkOGN

Prentiss Riddle 🎛pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-11-29

@zalasur (Before that my claim to fame was an aggregator of other people's human-curated directories of #InternetGopher. For about 15 minutes ca. 1993 my aggregator might have been in the top 100 sites on the internet. These weren't websites - the WWW at that point was basically a demo of a good idea without a lot of content. Gopher also had its own proto-Google search engine, called Veronica.)

umsl.edu/~munsr/civilwar/civgo

#gopher @ed_packet

Prentiss Riddle 🎛pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-11-18

@dgold @flockofnazguls I became a webmaster the day I fired up httpd with a one-page skin of links to the main sections of my university's gopher server. 😄 #internetGopher

2023-07-06

@reidrac the same discoverability issues probably apply to #Gopher. #VERONICA does find stuff, but maybe I need to learn how to make it show results in a different order? That sounds like it'd sometimes help.

What other search engines are there for #InternetGopher?

I also have the tarball from some years ago somewhere, I suppose I could just unpack and grep it :-D (but of course this won't include newer content)

Other place where having a usable search engine and archive would help: #USENET.

2023-01-25

#Minnesota was Silicon Valley before #SiliconValley
Watch this wonderful #documentary from Twin Cities #PublicTelevision (TPT) and see if you can spot a much younger me in the half second that I appear in a photograph!
tpt.org/solid-state/
#InternetGopher #RFC1436

2022-12-03

Last week @pzriddle sent me some vintage Internet Gopher T-shirts that were apparently cluttering his attic. Now you can see me model these way-too-small shirts with my stomach TOTALLY sucked in so I can't breathe!
Thanks Prentiss!
#InternetGopher #vintage #gopher #RFC1436 #GopherWorldTour93 #oldtimecomputing #vintagecomputing #peoplewhoshouldnevermodel #GopherCon

@albatross@mastodon.sdf.org models a vintage black T-shirt printed in white with "Internet Gopher World Tour '93" and an illustration of a stylized gopher face possessively grasping the world in its paws.The back of the vintage black T-shirt printed in white with "Internet Gopher World Tour '93"  followed by two columns of countries and the numbers of Gopher servers running on them at the time.@albatross@mastodon.sdf.org models a vintage black T-shirt printed in yellow and white with "Gopher: Cruisin' the Internet"  and an illustration of a stylized gopher driving a muscle car.@albatross@mastodon.sdf.org models a vintage white T-shirt printed in black with "Surf the Internet: Internet Gopher" and an illustration of a stylized gopher surfing a wave
2020-02-22

RT @Albatross@twitter.com

An article in @EFF@twitter.com by @doctorow@twitter.com about #AdversarialInteroperability and #InternetGopher. Links include my Gopher paper. Elements I worked on include the SLIP communications driver, the Unix client, & the Gopher-FTP gateway (which is why I still hate FTP.)
eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/goph

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Albatross/status/1

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