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__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)00:04:57 No.59297584]_______________________
** Gopher protocol **
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Am I the only one left who enjoys the simplicity and order of the
gopher protocol? Does anyone else still use it?
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)01:52:26 No.59298810]_______________________
>>59297584
It's cool, but there is nothing new to read over Gopher. Someone
should make a Gopher mirror of /g/.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)01:57:39 No.59298861]_______________________
>>59298810
I'd give that traffic.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)02:01:27 No.59298903]_______________________
>>59298861
I'd give your mom traffic.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)02:04:20 No.59298933]_______________________
>>59298903
How about my mom?
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)03:27:31 No.59299695]_______________________
>>59297584
Share your gopher links.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)03:46:34 No.59299884]_______________________
>>59298810
I'll make the logo
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)04:01:02 No.59299983]_______________________
>>59298933
your mom will get some ass traffic
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)05:07:45 No.59300424]_______________________
>>59298810
>Someone should make a Gopher mirror of /g/
gopher://khzae.net/1/phourchan/g/59297584
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)08:41:30 No.59302080]_______________________
Too bad Gopher is on the technical level of HTTP 0.9. It would be a
real improvement if you could add a simple size response header and
have it running on a persistent connection.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)10:56:40 No.59303319]_______________________
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>>59297584
I've seen some neat threads where /g/ makes a web page, how about a
Gopherhole?
gopher://khzae.net/1/ftp/g
(http://khzae.net/1/ftp/g works too if you don't have a Gopher client/
plugin)
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)11:13:13 No.59303524]_______________________
>>59302080
User input is also a little lacking compared to HTTP. In Gopher0 (non-
Gopher+) you really only have search queries (compare to single-line
text input and GET parameters in HTTP).
Gopher+ began adding metadata about items (response headers) and forms
(like HTML forms) but the UMN client and server are the only ones that
fully support it, and they are outdated in other regards compared to
"modern" Gopher servers and clients like Lynx or plugins like
Overbite.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)11:15:54 No.59303558]_______________________
>>59299884
Make a cool ASCII logo and I'll put it on http://khzae.net/1/phourchan
instead of that generic Figlet banner.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)11:33:57 No.59303759]_______________________
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__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)11:34:31 No.59303766]_______________________
>>59303759
Hey, that turned out alright
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)11:41:06 No.59303837]_______________________
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>>59303759
Big, but definitely cool
gopher://khzae.net/1/phourchan
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)13:24:19 No.59305108]_______________________
>>59300424
Is this a new thing?
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)14:28:38 No.59305812]_______________________
>>59305108
Yes, I only started putting stuff on gopher://khzae.net around the
start of this year.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)15:52:06 No.59306918]_______________________
>>59298810
You can read /g/'s favourite comic
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/fun/xkcd
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)15:58:11 No.59307031]_______________________
>>59303837
heh, even works on Android.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)16:00:10 No.59307058]_______________________
>>59297584
What are the advantages of gopher over HTTP/HTTPS?
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)16:02:40 No.59307101]_______________________
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>>59307031
Downloading doesn't work in overbite, because that will be for the
'next' release. (Which, will never happen by the way. But you can
browse gopherholes and I am happy enough with that for now)
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)16:35:41 No.59307479]_______________________
>>59307058
Gopher is simpler. You have plain text menus that navigate just like
browsing a file directory. You don't have cookies, Flash, HTML/CSS/
Javascript, web apps, tracking, ads, etc.
Technically you can serve those things over Gopher if you have a
client that can understand them (like a web browser) so the advantage
is less in the protocol and more in the idea. Gopher is content with
no frills.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)16:58:43 No.59307708]_______________________
I think if Gopher had very basic styling and a templating system for
fetching content from a URL whenever acted on, it could have went
somewhere.
Templating needs no client scripting, just a dynamic form essentially,
but for displaying data instead. (in fact, pretty much like HTML5
templating)
Speaking about very simple formatting though, not full on page
styling. (at best, viewport background, current field background and
foreground)
It could have easily still existed on text delivery systems that are
frequently used today, but not use stupidly over complicated HTML, CSS
and JS because default HTML layouts fucking suck.
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)17:00:30 No.59307731]_______________________
I was thinking recently how cool it would be to have a text based
internet, a retronet if you will, to be accessed using a terminal.
Like every thing would be stripped down, like in those 90s movies
where a kid logs in to some corporate site using a computer at the
mall. Could be comfy and a good way to consume text without
distractions. Is Gopher anything like that?
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)17:03:47 No.59307778]_______________________
What's the most patrician Gopher browser?
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)17:10:18 No.59307872]_______________________
>>59307731
Install lynx
__[Anonymous 03/08/17(Wed)17:11:44 No.59307886]_______________________
>>59307778
The one you wrote