So if you were using Gopher in the '90s, I'd love to read what you have
to say. How was the Gophersphere browsing different from WWW. Especially
what kind of Gopher holes disappeared before any indexes or archives
were made.
So if you were using Gopher in the '90s, I'd love to read what you have
to say. How was the Gophersphere browsing different from WWW. Especially
what kind of Gopher holes disappeared before any indexes or archives
were made.
So if you were using Gopher in the '90s, I'd love to read what you have
to say. How was the Gophersphere browsing different from WWW. Especially
what kind of Gopher holes disappeared before any indexes or archives
were made.
So if you were using Gopher in the '90s, I'd love to read what you have
to say. How was the Gophersphere browsing different from WWW. Especially what kind of Gopher holes disappeared before any indexes or archives
were made.
I ran the official central MSU gopher server. We also ran a public
gopher client for most of the period where we had a gopher server. Both services were based on the UMn software. We had a gopher front-end to Usenet, first via NFS-mounted spool, and later when the Usenet admin
wanted to make NFS go away, via an NNTP gateway I wrote called Mercury. (Original, huh?) The public client often had 30 or more users at a time during the day.
I have the three-ring binder from the event with papers and such, I
should scan that and put it online at some point.
The summary here:
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/7627
is reasonably decent. Background to the development of the Gopher
protocol and software is that (some of) McCahill's team (microcomputer support group) were involved in a centralized effort at UMn to develop a campus wide information system,
I ran the official central MSU gopher server. We also ran a public
gopher client for most of the period where we had a gopher server. Both services were based on the UMn software. We had a gopher front-end to Usenet, first via NFS-mounted spool, and later when the Usenet admin
wanted to make NFS go away, via an NNTP gateway I wrote called Mercury. (Original, huh?) The public client often had 30 or more users at a time during the day.
I have the three-ring binder from the event with papers and such, I
should scan that and put it online at some point.
So if you were using Gopher in the '90s, I'd love to read what you have
to say. How was the Gophersphere browsing different from WWW. Especially
what kind of Gopher holes disappeared before any indexes or archives
were made.
Hello,
Probably I am not the first, who did some research about Gopher origins.
It seems that there are many sources and archives. So I've gone through Usenet archives, textfiles.com repositories, Gophersphere archive at gopher://mozz.us:70/1/wayback, file repositories like gopher://cyber.dabamos.de/1/gopher, indexes like Gopher Jewels, and so
on. I asked about it on bulletin board system of sdf.org, which seems to gather the biggest Gopher users group. Finally, there are not to much information about first years in the Gophersphere, when it was booming. There are not many people who are writing about their beginnings in the Gophersphere. How they were doing, and what they were doing there.
So if you were using Gopher in the '90s, I'd love to read what you have
to say. How was the Gophersphere browsing different from WWW. Especially what kind of Gopher holes disappeared before any indexes or archives
were made.
You can also read my notes what I spotted by myself at gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/szczezuja/novice
Cheers!
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