Togo of Grand Smials ([info]hfx_ben) wrote,
@ 2006-07-18 00:00:00
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Parley-vous ''gopher''?
You know about WWW-browsers (obviously), and you very likely know about FTP ... and maybe about IRC, too.

Do you know about "gopher"? Gopher pre-dates WWW, like IRC and newsgroups (NNTP), and email ... it was a way of allowing folk to access other people's files, kinda like a web browser, but it didn't rely on HTML pages.

Here's a blast from the past that's still appropriate today: " A Practical Guide to Defeating The Radical Right" and "Directory: Cyberpunk and Postmodern Culture"

Some of the documents in there date back to 1994 ... around the time I started publishing web pages.
 

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[info]indigo_max
2006-07-18 06:30 pm UTC (link)
Gopher and WAIS were fantastic things to wander through in the dawning days before Sir Tim's web. If you knew how to navigate the stuff it could provide you with some wonderful information.

Max...

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[info]hfx_ben
2006-07-18 11:52 pm UTC (link)
You too hunh.
^5

(Didn't the folk who produce WSFTP also have a gopher client?)

The /moment/ I saw Mosaic I knew what was happening; I knew about the internet and had, in the late 80s, used a system called "Peabody" (DOS3.2) to create hypertext documents.
Boy did I ever slap myself in the forehead! But TimBL was in a resource-rich environment ... I've never been that fortunate.

cheers

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[info]didyoutouchme
2006-07-18 10:14 pm UTC (link)
"Directory: Cyberpunk and Postmodern Culture" doesn't work. It sounds interesting.

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[info]hfx_ben
2006-07-18 11:56 pm UTC (link)
hunh ... I just hack the URL for the document back to gopher://gopher.well.com/ and went from there ... gopher://gopher.well.com/11/cyberpunk worked fine here. And the link does too.

Oh wait, you using M$IE? It might have a problem with that protocol ... try http: instead of gopher: (You know you can edit the URL in the location bar, yes?) I dunno.

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