Subj : Re: Gopher
To   : Lord Gareth
From : calcmandan
Date : Wed May 27 2020 05:45:00

-=> Lord Gareth wrote to Gluon <=-

 LG> Wow, I didn't realize there was such an active Gopher community.  I
 LG> know a little about Gopher, well, enough to know what it is and what it
 LG> meant for the early days of the internet.  Not enough about current
 LG> usage and how it all works behind the scenes.

 LG> That being said, I will need to look more into it and see how it all
 LG> works. I just explored this as a response to a friend and didn't quite
 LG> know what I was getting into.  I'm excited to find another future
 LG> project to investigate, especially considering there is a Gopher server
 LG> for Mystic,

 LG> That's what you get for exploring Gopher holes.  Sometimes you find an
 LG> alternate path to Wonderland.

Yeah and people can pull the plug on something great too. Until a few months
ago someone had a gopherized news site that pulled rss feeds and some scripting
magic to pull in the rest of the stories. He killed the page one day because he
didn't want to pay for the domain reg.

Daniel Traechin

.... Visit me at gopher://gcpp.world
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