On 12/31/19 8:21 PM, Bradley Gannon wrote:
I'm not familiar with gopher, but some light reading has revealed that it's a way of organizing information on the Internet that sort of got its lunch eaten by the Web. Many of you have more grey in your beards than me (visible or not) and know first-hand what gopher is like. In any case, ~club, your task this week is to do something with your gopher space here on tilde.club. A "hello world" will suffice, but I encourage you to do what you can to make it interesting. When you do, be sure to post it here so we can all check it out!
For the uninitiated, gopher is a pre-http protocol that was created at the University of Minnesota:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
~tomasino has a lovely intro site set up at https://gopher.zone that's worth a look.
Our gopher homepage shows users that have created a ~/public_gopher directory and changed their main gophermap. To view it, open your favorite gopher client (try "lynx gopher://tilde.club" if you're just starting) or open it in a web proxy: https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tilde.club
Since I don't personally know much about gopher, I haven't even checked to see if anyone is using it on this server. I haven't seen anyone mention it, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. If you've already got something going over there, great! I'll see you there. If not, then I encourage you to take this small step with me.
There's also some additional info on our wiki here: http://tilde.club/wiki/gopher.html
Gopher aficionados tend to gather in the #gopher channel on irc as well, which is a good place to ask questions.
Happy gophering! ~benharri