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GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop

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Re: GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop

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Post by simias »

pstuart wrote: post #5
83457 wrote: post #3

When I saw the headline I thought for a moment this was about the protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

Really? Would you care to talk about your work with the gopher protocol and it's application in today's computing environment?

Reading the title I was actually hoping for a Gopher revival movement as a way to denounce the bloat surrounding HTTP and the mountain of protocols built haphazardly on top of it. Needless to say that I projected hard.

Re: GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop

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Post by rhencke »

pstuart wrote: post #5
83457 wrote: post #3

When I saw the headline I thought for a moment this was about the protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

Really? Would you care to talk about your work with the gopher protocol and it's application in today's computing environment?

There are many conventions held around technologies no longer in common use, but which still have an avid following of those that still find usefulness or enjoyment from them.

For example, conferences around the Amiga and the Commodore 64 are still going on in 2018. I would honestly not be surprised if there was truly a conference dedicated to the Gopher protocol out there.

If there was, I would totally want to read about it here. :)

Re: GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop

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Post by cyborgx7 »

faehnrich wrote: post #2

darn, was hoping this was for the protocol

I've stumbled uppon it recently (significant active use was before my time) and I'm in love with its simplicity compared with modern formats. I was hoping for something to get me into the protocol as well.

Re: GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop

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Post by mdom »

rhencke wrote: post #7
pstuart wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Would you care to talk about your work with the gopher protocol and it's application in today's computing environment?

There are many conventions held around technologies no longer in common use, but which still have an avid following of those that still find usefulness or enjoyment from them. For example, conferences around the Amiga and the Commodore 64 are still going on in 2018. I would honestly not be surprised if there was truly a conference dedicated to the Gopher protocol out there. If there was, I would totally want to read…

Gopher is not the only topic, but Bitreich Con had some talks about gopher like "Migrating the web to gopher".

gopher://bitreich.org/1/con/2018

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