[ale] gopher

[Geoffrey]

James Sumners wrote:
> Gopher, despite popular belief, is not dead --
> http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ . Therefore, there is no way one
> download is going to contain "the entire history" of Gopher domains.

Well the article does say 'most of this is offline.'

> 
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>> wow,
>> back in the early 90's I used to bypass the AT&T web block by using gopher ..
>> now:
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/29/2141254/All-of-Gopherspace-Available-For-Download?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:
>> +Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)
>>
>> An anonymous reader writes
>> "Cory Doctorow tells us that '[i]n 2007, John Goerzen scraped every gopher
>> site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to the Web;
>> I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000
>> documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he's making the
>> entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed data is only
>> 15GB. Wanna host the entire history of a medium? Here's your chance!' Get
>> yourself a piece of pre-Internet history (torrent)."
> 
> 
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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