Interesting link from one blog that I have in my reader. The author
notes that one company is posting a link to Gopher in its Twitter post.
The co-founder of the retro hand-held company uses Gopher to communicate information about his new product. So '90s Gopher can be used for modern marketing. ;-)
https://daverupert.com/2022/05/notes-from-a-gopher-site/
gopher://stevenf.com:70/0/journal/2022/04/18/first-playdates-shipping.txt
gopher://stevenf.com:70/0/journal/2022/04/22/panic-is-25.txt
From what I’ve
read it seems that gopher is anti-commercial, but I’m trying to better understand where the community lands on this.
Thanks for sharing, I thought this was very cool to see. I am a relatively new user to all things “smol” being born shortly after gopher was released.
Your links brought a few questions to mind regarding the use of gopher
(and Usenet, Gemini for that matter) for commercial interests. I liked seeing Steven Frank promote what is obviously a labor of love on his
journal, but would it also be acceptable for his company to have a presence on gopher? Say a stripped down version of their http site? From what I’ve read it seems that gopher is anti-commercial, but I’m trying to better understand where the community lands on this.
On 2022-05-08, lunchboxhero <lunchboxhero@sdf.org> wrote:
I salvaged what I could in 2007. By then, many sites were offline,
but you can find some commercial sites in my archive: https://archive.org/details/2007-gopher-mirror
It was effectively possible to download the entirety of Gopherspace in
2007.
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