------------------------------------------------------------------------ | THE MONTREAL GREEK TIMES GOPHER NEWS SERVICE | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About Us THE MONTREAL GREEK TIMES is a Montreal-based Greek-Canadian media organization publishing a newspaper, operating a community television channel (Montreal Greek TV), and broadcasting via internet radio (Montreal Greek Radio). Since 1994, when Montreal Greek Radio became Canada's first internet radio station and the world's first Greek internet radio station, we have maintained a continuous presence on the digital frontier. This Gopher server is one node in the Montreal Greek Times Unicorn (MGT Unicorn), a parallel publishing infrastructure that delivers our journalism through alternative and historically significant network protocols. MGT Unicorn operates independently of mainstream web platforms, social media, and modern app ecosystems. The name "Unicorn" reflects the rarity of the overall environment. It is unusual to find any one of these services maintained in active operation. All of them running together as a coherent, public-facing distribution layer is almost unheard of. MGT Unicorn preserves this near-extinct ecosystem as a functioning system, not an exhibit behind glass. What You Will Find ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Current headlines and full articles from the Greek community in Montreal, in both English and Greek. Weather briefings generated from Environment Canada data. The print replica edition of THE MONTREAL GREEK TIMES in PDF, compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 on Windows 95 or higher. Structured, menu-driven navigation without scripts, advertising, or client-side complexity. The MGT Unicorn Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beyond this Gopher server, the same content is available through multiple access paths: Web: https://www.greektimes.ca BBS: telnet://bbs.greektimes.ca (FidoNet node 1:229/134) Gopher: gopher://gopher.greektimes.ca Gemini: gemini://gemini.greektimes.ca Web 1.0: http://retro.greektimes.ca Finger: finger news@finger.greektimes.ca finger weather@finger.greektimes.ca Usenet: news://news.greektimes.ca Onion: http://pdfjsjif5kr3ppaxzgukdtkqsfqvku3rzpumbyfa5oaw65iyuzhip3ad.onion Radio: pnm://retro.greekradio.ca:7070/live.ra (RealAudio 3.0/PNA) The BBS connects to FidoNet, the world's oldest continuously operating global BBS message network, founded in 1984. The RealAudio stream uses the original PNA protocol from the mid-1990s and is, to our knowledge, the only such live stream presently in public operation anywhere in the world. The Usenet service provides standards-based access to current articles and weather briefings through traditional NNTP newsreader software. Why We Built This ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are the only ethnic media organization in the world maintaining this architecture. We do it to honor the history of communication, to provide a distraction-free reading environment, and to prove that in a world of disposable technology, quality content is timeless. MGT Unicorn is intended for technically proficient users, computer historians, retro-computing enthusiasts, privacy-conscious readers, and members of the independent small-internet community. It is also of interest to librarians, researchers, historians, and digital archivists who study the evolution of networked media. These services provide access to working examples of legacy protocols, historically authentic distribution systems, and archival material that would otherwise be available only in museums or emulators. About Gopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gopher is a small, quiet corner of the Internet and a predecessor of the World Wide Web. It provides structured, menu-driven navigation without scripts, advertising, or client-side complexity. Today, roughly 200 Gopher servers are believed to remain active worldwide. THE MONTREAL GREEK TIMES operates one of them. On retro systems (Windows 3.x and Windows 9x), Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold provides native Gopher support. On modern systems, Lagrange is recommended and is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MONTREAL GREEK TIMES 2128 Boul des Laurentides, Suite 421 Laval, QC H7M 2Y6 Canada Tel: +1 (514) 998-0878 Fax: +1 (514) 221-2425 Email: info@greektimes.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MONTREAL GREEK TIMES Montreal Greek Radio-Television and Newspaper (c) MCMXCIV - MMXXVI