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A challenge to the data hoarders out there. Find the contents of the amazing music archive that one lived at archive.uwp.edu (FTP or Gopher) and was mirrored to mirrors.aol.com.

@textfiles - didn't see it in the boneyard. Ideas?

http://www.folklib.net/index/uwp_gone.shtml

 

The end times approach. Gopher protocol over HTTP and support for TLS.

But seriously I now have the weirdest Masto timeline with Adam Curry NoAgenda Show folks and retro-hacker Gopher Protocol people.

https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goh





 

Looks like Adam Curry spoke about Internet Gopher on the Rogan Podcast, so I had to dig this out of the email archives from September '93
@noagenda @adamcurry : https://t.co/1Zt9ZgNkbZ https://t.co/rfg9tdFje9

 

RT @Albatross: An article in @EFF by @doctorow about and . Links include my Gopher paper. Eleme…

 

In June 1995 I presented "Using Gopher with the World-Wide-Web" at GopherCon 95.

""Together the strengths of Gopher and WWW create a better, more integrated information system.""

http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNSeLizSGrHjpMZKQg21Sw15NQNTmMjA43mDtw66fNDSz/Webbedgopher.txt

 

Before there was Commons Clause or Affero the University of Minnesota Gopher team tried to license the server code with carve-outs for non-commercial use.

https://t.co/1rcNIjN8bo
(https://t.co/xLP7jqv09E)

 

@bfeld team gopher spent a lot of time on Forms Nirvana, which lives to this day at https://t.co/7UcWOPgiXM https://t.co/Nw0co1bgke

 

*GopherLeaks* - Gopher @30 and Email Retention...

I'm working with a journalist writing a long-form Gopher article. I have every. single. email. from the 90s. It was incredible and allowed me to get some facts straight, relive some past glories and groan at some bonehead moments.

So I'm sad that Googlers will never get to have the same experience 30 years from now. With our 18 month retention policy and corporate ownership you'd better start keeping a [paper] diary..

[_And wow, I sure was a cocky mf back then._ and here's a Stevens reference since I was a metalhead unix programmer back then..]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjjydz40rNI






 

This following comment makes me wonder...  when will HTML not make up the majority of our search corpus?

_They've already been using their ranking system to encourage HTTP and HTML. Think of all the poor BBSs and gopher servers they've been discriminating against!_


http://search-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/08/07/1556204/google-will-give-a-search-edge-to-websites-th...






 

On Vox: Gopher on MTV http://ff.im/-3JNG3