DIR Floodgap Systems gopher root
Welcome to Gopherspace!
These documents and files should help you get started with
using and creating gopher content.
TEXT Does this gopher menu look correct?
-- All about gopher -----------------------------------------------
TEXT A Brief Introduction to Gopherspace -- READ ME FIRST!
TEXT Why is gopher still relevant?
"Thinking of it like that, a method of easily serving directories
of data, rather than a scaled down web makes the whole thing more
appealing I think." -- Rob Sayers
TEXT Robert Bigelow: Gopher & Gopherspace
TEXT Wired 08/2010: The Web Is Dead. Long Live The Internet.
(Wired 08/2010. We'll take this down if Wired objects.)
TEXT The creators of Gopherspace at UMN (Star Tribune 11/5/01)
TEXT Using your web browser to explore Gopherspace
(and why you shouldn't use Internet Explorer)
DIR The Overbite Project: Gopher clients for mobile and desktop (OverbiteWX, OverbiteNX, Overbite Android)
(download Overbite clients for your operating system
or browser, including Firefox!)
DIR Patches and clients for other legacy platforms
-- Creating your own gopher ---------------------------------------
Create your own gopherspace and come forward into the past!
DIR The SDF Member PHLOGOSPHERE
Don't have your own server? Create it for free at SDF! Or, if you
have your own Unix machine with Perl, install
DIR The Bucktooth gopher server
Then get started creating your own content. Take a look at the
DIR The Gopher Toybox: sample gophermaps to create your own server
to download a sample set of files you can modify yourself!
This is public domain.
-- Share your gopherspace -----------------------------------------
Now that it's running, tell everyone about it!
Get a dual-purpose social media link with the fld.gp shortener:
DIR Floodgap Gopher Shortener Service
Did you just put a completely new server online?
Tell us about your new server and Veronica will come index it:
DIR New gopher servers since 1999
-- Reference documentation ----------------------------------------
DIR Technical specifications, RFCs, documents
** Points to ponder:
[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected
Gopher servers to be one large distributed entity; thus,
we speak of "the Gopher", with its many small parts,
spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is always
growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't
locate it; it's always there, but you can't see it. ...
The Gopher is the largest and most practical example of
applied pantheism in the history of mankind.
Hahn; Stout. The Internet Complete Reference (1994)
TEXT "In The Beginning Was The Command Line"
by Neil Stephenson