8 Jul
2026
8 Jul
'26
5:12 a.m.
Gopher is an interesting direction to go. I've been meaning to give it a
try.
I was wondering if there's a desire to pass a few copies around, like the
old debian or netbsd mirrors, to help maintain the content of these sites.
I've seen a few go off-line in the last few years and don't want to lose
the content. I know Internet Archive is struggling with various issues, so
I was wondering if there's something a bit more home grown to participate
in.
~Daniel
On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 17:35 Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
The future, for those of us who hate the
technologies, budgets, and ick
factor required to survive the post-web sewer, probably lies in static
web sites.
Or perhaps we go to a different protocol. Most of my file archives are only
accessible by Gopher, for example. Gopher spiders of course could be built
and
some web spiders try to do so through ill-configured Gopher proxies, but my
Gopher server contributes a lot less to my load average (and bandwidth
usage)
right now than the web server does. It's also easier to reason about the
bad
actors, since there are fewer of them.
The Gemini crowd likely has some similar thoughts.
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