[Eug-lug]Resurrecting Gopherspace

[Beaker (aka Jeff W)]

Recently freeshell.org resurrected their gopherspace (gopher://gopher.freeshell.org) with the idea that not only would it help slow the protocol's demise, gopher's uniformity and "starkness" make it unappealing to the various commercial interests that some feel have monopolized the http protocol. I like gopher's intrinsic emphasis of content over presentation and am trying to think of useful and interesting ways I could add to the existing gopherspace (which is very small apparently); maybe a gopher://euglug.org ?

BTW, the gopher protocol has some support in current browsers. By far the best appears to be Lynx and Mosaic. Sadly, gopher support is broken in Mozilla and its derivatives (except possibly Navigator), and non-existent in Dillo, Konqerour, and Links. Oddly, IE still support it. There are various console-based gopher clients, the primary one being from U of MN, the creators of the protocol.

And for all you activists: http://www.scn.org/~bkarger/gopher-manifesto

-beaker

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