Making the web fun again

Re:Making the web fun again by dugmartin on Friday June 28, 2013 @12:05PM (#5958699)

I'm 41 too. If you want a feel of the old days of command line access you can always browse gopher via a proxy (now that most browsers have dropped gopher protocol support):

http://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.floodgap.com/

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Re:Making the web fun again by jimbosis on Friday June 28, 2013 @01:34PM (#5959232)

If you want to set up a 'gopher hole,' an SDF shell account (free and/or $1 donation to 'validate') includes 50 MB of space for a gopher page. It also has the 'bboard' community bulletin board, which I believe has code heritage going back to the dial-up BBS days. http://sdf.org/

Floodgap, which you link to via the meulie proxy, also offers a gopher proxy. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ (that's the intro page, with links into the gopherspace).

The original UMN 'gopher' client (and gopherd server) are available under the GPL now. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.quux.or...

The client at least is available Debian and Ubuntu. Regarding the client, it's amazing how productive one can be without one's fingers ever leaving the arrow keys. The gopher killed the mouse! There are also other servers available such as bucktooth (perl) and pygopherd. Port 70, baby!

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Re:Making the web fun again by alan_cx on Friday June 28, 2013 @01:02PM (#5959046)

Yeah, having read the replied and ideas, Gopher is sort of what I was thinking. Its coming back to me now...

Im going to do some revision reading.

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