------------------------------------------------------------------------ | THE TELETEXT GOPHER SERVICE | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About Us The Teletext (in French, Le Teletexte) is the publishing system of 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). In 1994 Montreal Greek Radio became Canada's first internet radio station and the world's first Greek internet radio station, and we have kept a continuous presence on the digital frontier ever since. This Gopher server is one of the services of The Teletext, a parallel publishing infrastructure, served from the Unicorn server, that delivers our journalism through alternative and historically significant network protocols. The Teletext operates independently of mainstream web platforms, social media, and modern app ecosystems, and keeps this near-extinct ecosystem working 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 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. Other Teletext Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beyond this Gopher server, the same journalism is published over a range of other network protocols. 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. The Teletext 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 Teletext 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 Teletext, a division of 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@teletext.ca Site: http://www.teletext.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Montreal Greek Radio-Television and Newspaper (c) MMXXVI, The Teletext