article-a-newspaper-for-gopher.mw - tgtimes - The Gopher Times
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1 .SH josuah
2 A Newspaper for Gopher
3 .PP
4 Starting from today, \fIThe Gopher Times\fR is going to be published.
5 How can a paper-oriented journal make sense in this hypermedia
6 .FS
7 term used by Roy Fielding (Apache httpd)
8 .FE
9 era?
10 .PP
11 Rather than a continuous feed of upmost shocking headlines,
12 \fIThe Gopher Times\fR publishes news you can read without a cookiewall
13 or paywall.
14 .PP
15 Paper newspapers go through a long chain: reporters, photographers,
16 redactors, editors, columnists, layout artists, typesetters, printers,
17 carriers and other supportive technicians... and are sold for a quarter.
18 .PP
19 The web considerably shackled the landscape: the high speed of computers
20 made real-time text news a reality, where time from Trump's tweet
21 announcements to publication is below a few hours.
22 .PP
23 This journal diverts the present norm by 90° by using \fCtroff(1)\fR
24 as its foundation: a \fItypesetter\fR producing static documents ready
25 to be printed.
26 .PP
27 A new markdown to troff converter
28 .FS
29 git://git.z0.is/notmarkdown
30 .FE
31 as well as an entire custom macro set \fCmw\fR
32 .FS
33 git://bitreich.org/tgtimes
34 .FE
35 are built to fit screens of all shapes, and build-up the sensibility
36 of an actual journal.