The new kid in gopherspace - 3 November 2017
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So this is my first phlog. I've never had a phlog nor a blog before, but
I might as well give it a try.

Only  recently  have  I learned about the gopher protocol; I was reading
the documentation for lynx, a terminal based web browser, when I came to
the  section about supported protocols and I saw gopher listed. Curious,
I  looked  up  the  gopher  protocol  and  discovered  this  interesting
technology which predates the web. I'm a pretty big computer nerd, and I
love learning about the history of computing, so I found it strange that
I've never even heard of gopher.

There  wasn't  much information on the web about gopher, so I decided to
just read the entire gopher  specification.  The  protocol  is  actually
quite simple, and surely implementing a gopher server wouldn't have been
too difficult. But after poking around gopherspace for a bit I found the
sdf, and I thought it would be much easier to host a "gopherhole" on the
sdf's server rather than trying to teach myself how TCP works  (Although
I still might make a gopher server as a future project of mine).

I  don't  quite  know  why  I find gopher so apealing; Perhaphs it is my
fascination with  text  based  interfaces  and  plaintext,  or  even  my
dissapointment  with today's world wide web (I'm probably going to write
a rant about this). In any case, I do like the notion of keeping a piece
of technological history alive.

Anyways, I will be posting content hopefully daily about things that I'm
thinking about. I'm mainly interested  in  computing,  so  most  of  the
content  I put here will revolve around computers. So, If I even have an
audience I would like to welcome everyone to my brand new phlog!

-- Auzymoto