Re:Gopher: A Present for Redis
by kevan on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:41PM
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This is great. As a University of Minnesota graduate I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for gopher. Even in 2010 I remember we had some old gopher documentation floating around the IT department. Here's a summary[1] of its history.
Re:Gopher: A Present for Redis
by kgwxd on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:24PM
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Because of this post, I've spent the last few hours re-exploring gopher spaces on sdf.org. Half that time was spent reading xmanmonk's "What The...?" phlog from the start. I have no clue if they're real or just stories, but either way, they're great reads.
Re:Gopher: A Present for Redis
by FerretFred on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @10:27AM
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Gopher in 2019 sounds a bit strange.. Yes, but fun, and free from all the "value-added" crud that we usually have to put up with. My gopherhole is attracting around 1000 visitors monthly.
Re:Gopher: A Present for Redis
by sloum on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @01:41PM
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Time to write one! They are fun little coding projects (I've written three, one in Lua, one in Python/Tkinter, and one in Golang). A lot of the people in the shell communities I am a part of (all of which offer Gopher hosting) roll their own. The protocol is just so simple and easy to work with. :)
Re:Gopher: A Present for Redis
by jasonvorhe on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:29AM
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Isn't this "everything that's new is bad, let's get back to old days" rather tiresome?
Not trying to be the hater here. I'd just like to know what's so appealing about stuff where all the improvements we've had since the 80s aren't noticeable, like HiDPI displays, easy access to embedded 4k HDR video without requiring stuff like Flash or Silverlight.
Re:Gopher: A Present for Redis
by smir on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:15AM
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those improvements are leaving a lot of population behind, low memory machines and slow internet connections are still there and old technologies are helping keeping people connected
[1] https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph...
Here is the link from Feb 25, 2009
Note this number = 494649
Today = 19 247493
Nineteen (19) Million Posts etc later (mas o menos)
Perhaps soon there will also be a Revival section to add, if enough interest is generated. My curiosity has certainly been piqued!
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/25/ubiquitilink-advance-means...
I wonder how/why this happened...
Not trying to be the hater here. I'd just like to know what's so appealing about stuff where all the improvements we've had since the 80s aren't noticeable, like HiDPI displays, easy access to embedded 4k HDR video without requiring stuff like Flash or Silverlight.