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The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet, and was a predecessor, and later, an alternative to the W...
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GoFish is a gopher server. The gopher protocol predates the world wide web. They say that "inside every big program is a little program trying to get out". Well gopher is the "little program" inside the web. ... Most web browsers, such as Netscape and Internet Explorer, support gopher.
gofish.sourceforge.net/
Matisse Enzer helped set up The WELL's Gopher server and tells how it came to be on his blog. And here are a few other Gopher servers that are still running:
kottke.org/06/08/gopher-still-going kottke.org/06/08/gopher-still-going
You are browsing Gopher through a Web interface right now. You can use most browsers to browse Gopher natively. If your browser supports it, click here to ...
www.quux.org:70/Software/Gopher/servers www.quux.org:70/Software/Gopher/servers
Gopher servers are still online at The WELL and other sites, filled with historical documents from the early 1990s ... CovardeAnonimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10at one time i found some funny conspiracy theories hosted on gopher servers. gopher space is a good place to put odd ball stuff you don't want google to see...
digg.com/hardware/Gopher_servers_still_online digg.com/hardware/Gopher_servers_still_online
Yahoo! reviewed these sites and found them related to Internet > Gopher ... Wiretap Electronic Text Archive; One of the earliest etext repositories organized in an Internet age prior to the creation of the World Wide Web. As such it still resides in archaic Gopher form. wiretap.area.com...
dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/internet/gopher/ dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/internet/gopher/
And in order to provide commercial services, Gopher servers with greater encryption and security features must be developed. "Wireless communications developers would be well-advised to look at this venerable Internet protocol when seeking ways to communicate with wireless and handheld devices such as PDAs and cell phones.
www.scn.org/~bkarger/gopher-manifesto www.scn.org/~bkarger/gopher-manifesto
Gopher Invented at the University of Minnesota in 1993 just before the Web, gopher was a widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. ... There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the Internet and we can expect they will remain for a while.
www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/librarys/locators.html
Welcome to gopher at quux.org! *, This server has a lot of information of historic interest,. *, funny, or just plain entertaining -- all presented in ...
www.quux.org:70/
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