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Contains selected posts from my blog, and ocassional content exclusive to my
Gopherhole.
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I've always had a soft spot for Gopher. I was fortunate enough to take my
first steps on the Internet back when Gopher was still around, and while even
then it seemed clear to me that the Web would "win" and render Gopher
obsolete, I witnessed debates with its fans who argued passionately for
Gopher's benefits.
Gopher never died, of course: not completely. It still runs wild and free on
the modern Internet. It's even enjoyed a minor resurgence in popularity in
recent years, as the "smolnet" has taken root and people have taken an
interest in reinventing the simpler, safer, faster, lighter, and
more-interpersonal Internet.
I believe that Gemini is our best bet for a future "Gopher-like" system, but I
think that Gemini, Spartan and Gopher all have their own interesting charms.
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My Gopherhole mostly acts as a partial mirror of my weblog. Want to see?
DIR 2025-09-04 The Beer Token
DIR 2025-08-06 Internet Services^H Provider
DIR 2025-08-05 Part of the Internet, or connecting to the Internet?
DIR 2025-07-23 Lock All The Computers
DIR 2025-06-28 The Huge Grey Area in the Anthropic Ruling
DIR 2025-06-09 Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
DIR 2025-06-07 I Wrote the Same Code Six Times!
DIR 2025-05-21 Google Shared My Phone Number!
DIR 2025-03-29 Delivery Songs
DIR 2025-03-22 Feed Readers Beat Doomscrolling
DIR 2025-03-19 WebDX: Does More Mean Better?
DIR 2025-03-14 Work Slippers
DIR 2025-02-27 A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
DIR 2025-02-18 WordPress to ClassicPress
DIR 2025-02-17 Frustrating At Scale
DIR 2025-02-17 Queers make the world a safer place
DIR 2025-02-08 BBC News RSS... your way!
DIR 2025-02-05 Reading more rolled papyri
DIR 2025-02-03 BBC News RSS... with the sport?
DIR 2025-01-21 Sabbatical Lesson #1: Boundaries
DIR 2025-01-12 James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
DIR 2025-01-07 Entitled by Kate Manne
DIR 2024-12-12 Moving Three Rings' Servers
DIR 2024-12-01 99 Days of Blogging
DIR 2024-11-16 Sadder Than Fiction
DIR 2024-10-27 Hour of Ambiguity
DIR 2024-10-24 How I Learned to Enjoy Pickled Onion Monster Munch
DIR 2024-10-18 Nex in CapsulePress
DIR 2024-10-17 WordStress
DIR 2024-10-14 Firsts and Lasts
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HTML gemini: Dan's gemini capsule
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HTML finger: Dan's finger server
HTML fedi: @dan@danq.me
HTML email: gopherhole@danq.me