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Gopher
I sometimes (ok, often) get nostalgic of old technologies.
About a year ago I felt nostalgic of browsing library data using Gopher, back in my early Internet days, when your ISP still provided you with Gopher software.
Even though Gopher sites can still be browsed with Mozilla, I decided to learn a bit about the protocol by making a simple Gopher client using PHP, and at the same time try to make it a slight bit cuter than Mozilla's. Most of the protocol is in fact so simple that I think it took me less than an hour to complete it.
Today I came across that small client again, and after a bit of testing I decided to make it available to all, so here it is!
The start URL is gopher://gopher.quux.org/ - the main Gopher starting point on today's Internet, containing historic data, old text files, Color Computer games, and links to a few other working Gopher sites.
PHP Gopher Proxy (Current version 1.0β)
Posted on July 30, 2004 at 17:50 | Tweet
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oh man. i used to LOVE gopher when i was on the net in 1992 or so. someone told me about mosaic and i was like, the WWW couldn't be any better than gopher!
Posted by marxy on August 8, 2004 at 13:41
Haha! :)
Posted by Patrick on August 8, 2004 at 13:49