gopher is really fun. at least i have a fun time messing with it.
January 5, 2020 8:28 AM, "Alan Schussman" alan@schussman.com wrote:
Nice work! I too remember using gopher, but didn't ever make anything with it.
Alan
PS - I'm jealous that you live in Squamish! I spent my best summer there, teaching camp kids to climb.
On 5 Jan 2020, at 0:00, Alexis Birkill wrote:
This is my first time participating in the weekly workshops (thanks to > Bradley for the excellent idea), and my first time posting to the > mailing list -- hi! I'm really pleased to be a part of this > community, and although I don't often get much done, I always enjoy > reading the mailing list posts and browsing everyone's pages.
This is also my first time creating any Gopher pages -- I remember > using Gopher back when I first had access to the Internet in the early > 90s, but although I started playing around creating websites pretty > much straight away, I never created a Gopher site.
As my most memorable experience with text interfaces was playing > adventure games, I decided I'd create a (poor) homage in the form of a > very simple maze game that takes the form of a rather excessive number > of gophermap files and subdirectories! You can try it out directly > via gopher here:
gopher://tilde.club/1/~abirkill/gophermaze
or via the excellent web proxy here:
https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tilde.club/1/~abirkill/gophermaze
Enjoy, and don't get lost!
~abirkill