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       | |  _ / _ \| '_ \| '_ \ / _ \ '__| | |_| |/ _ \| |/ _ \
       | |_| | (_) | |_) | | | |  __/ |    |  _  | (_) | |  __/
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       When I just got on the internet and started making websites, I was
       always fascinated by protocols. I'm slightly too young for Gopher's
       heyday, but I remember 'gopher' be one of the things you could
       specify a proxy for in early Internet Explorer, and randomly ran into
       gopher:// sites back when all major browsers still had built-in
       support for this.
       
       Back in 2006 I decided to make a little gopher server with PHP and
       inentd. It didn't go very far, but gopher's just kinda been in the
       back of my mind ever since.
       
 (HTM) My original Gopher server
       
       Bacause it's not super easy to set up a free Gopher server due to
       needing an IP address (no vhosts on gopher), I never really got around
       to making a permanent site. But 20 years later in 2026, I finally have
       a little homelab I can run this on.
       
       So I decided to make a new server, this time in Node.js. But in the
       last 20 years, my reason for making this has also changed a bit. While
       originally it may just have been a novelty, now gopher feels a bit
       more like a respite from the normal web that's been overrun by ads,
       corporate interests, AI, misinformation and toxic short form content.
       
       My server is open source, if you want to take a look or fork it to
       make your own hole own.
       
 (HTM) Server source on Github
       
       So what is this going to be?
       
       I have a blog on https://evertpot.com/ as well, but it's mostly
       technical. I might use this space as a slightly more casual and
       personal space, but not sure yet!
       
 (HTM) My HTTP blog
       
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