For some more nostalgia, check out:
http://telehack.com/
"You can telnet directly to Telehack on the regular telnet port of 23.
"Open a command shell and type
telnet telehack.com
"See http://telehack.com/telehack.html for more information."
Funny, yesterday I was there, I was curious about playing Vicious Cycles over telnet and some BSD 4.3 machine under Simh (yes, I have it under OpenBSD and Frotz too, but I was just having fun :) ).
Re:textfiles.com
by mark_l_watson on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:08AM
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In the 1980s we had fantastic Internet connectivity and bandwidth at SAIC but most stuff was on FTP sites. I spent at least an hour a week curating lists of FTP sites and directory listings of them. I was sort-of a human search engine and would help people find useful stuff. Then the text-based www happened, then Mozilla happened, and things exponentially got more awesome. We had a smart young guy, Greg Hannah, who set up web servers for us on just about day zero of the web.
Floodgap is the de-facto home of Gopher: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
If you are on Windows, I have written a nice modern gopher client: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...
I prefer gopher://magical.fish
Ooh nice site - it's not been around that long either.
That said, Cameron Kaiser has done so much to promote gopher, I don't feel it's fair to redirect people away from his site though.
Every Gopher hole is good, but magical.fish is a great showoff as an intro :D.
Very cool, but the screenshots are really small.
Yeah - I did have larger, but they um, got lost. I keep meaning to do new ones.
Gopher was how I first got on the internet! Oh memories!
Poking through the posted site... I still remember when I discovered this[1] circa 1993-ish. It was the funniest thing ever back then.
https://gopher.commons.host/