Very cool! Someone should update Wikipedia and add this as a Gopher server implementation. Perhaps soon there will also be a Revival section to add, if enough interest is generated. My curiosity has certainly been piqued!
Gopher: A Present for Redis
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#12This is great. Time to install a gopher client.
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#14Wow that brings back memories of the old dialup modems. I remember using gopher when I first got on the Internet.
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#15https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494649 Here is the link from Feb 25, 2009 Note this number = 494649 Today = 19 247493 Nineteen (19) Million Posts etc later (mas o menos)
Very cool. He had Redis Cluster in mind then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495711
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
This might be a problem though for some people/projects: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:7mk... I wonder how/why this happened...
looks like that search is tied to a session, what did you search for?
Sorry - "Gopher Protocol" is now a registered trademark...
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#17Isn't this "everything that's new is bad, let's get back to old days" rather tiresome?
Not trying to be the hater here. I'd just like to know what's so appealing about stuff where all the improvements we've had since the 80s aren't noticeable, like HiDPI displays, easy access to embedded 4k HDR video without requiring stuff like Flash or Silverlight.
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#18Gopher in 2019 sounds a bit strange.. Yes, but fun, and free from all the "value-added" crud that we usually have to put up with. My gopherhole is attracting around 1000 visitors monthly.
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#19Isn't this "everything that's new is bad, let's get back to old days" rather tiresome? Not trying to be the hater here. I'd just like to know what's so appealing about stuff where all the improvements we've had since the 80s aren't noticeable, like HiDPI displays, easy access to embedded 4k HDR video without requiring stuff like Flash or Silverlight.
those improvements are leaving a lot of population behind, low memory machines and slow internet connections are still there and old technologies are helping keeping people connected
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#20This is great. Time to install a gopher client.
Time to write one! They are fun little coding projects (I've written three, one in Lua, one in Python/Tkinter, and one in Golang). A lot of the people in the shell communities I am a part of (all of which offer Gopher hosting) roll their own. The protocol is just so simple and easy to work with. :)