Subj : gopher howto help
To   : bbsing
From : Ben Collver
Date : Fri Dec 08 2023 13:02:59

  Re: gopher howto help
  By: bbsing to Ben Collver on Fri Dec 08 2023 00:38:33

BB> gopher://sdf.org/1/users/bbsing
BB> Its not pretty yet .... and may never be but its working.

Congratulations and welcome to gopherspace!  I enjoyed reading your
first post about your computing history.

I remember using gopher on DOS, possibly with UMN's client.  I mostly
recall using it to find out about new FTP sites and download PC games
and utilities.  I wasn't overly impressed with gopher nor with the
early web.  I was looking for my computer to gain new functionality,
as opposed to new ease of use.

I have a long and private memoires file about my computing history.
My high school teacher recommended The Cuckoo's Egg and i checked it
out from the local library to read in 1994.  I recently re-read it and
it makes more sense to me now than it did then.  At some point i lost
interest in computers, but gaining Internet access gave it a social
factor that rekindled my interest.  I remember checkout out a book
from the university library on SysV socket programming and learning to
write network code.

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