A huge chunk of Gopherspace up for download

Saw this mentioned on Slashdot a minute ago and thought of you guys: "Cory Doctorow tells us that '[i]n 2007, John Goerzen scraped every gopher site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to the Web; I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000 documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he's making the entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed data is only 15GB. Wanna host the entire history of a medium? Here's your chance!' Get yourself a piece of pre-Internet history (torrent)." <http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/04/29/2141254> <http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/Full%20Gopher%20Archive%20from%202007.torrent> Figured someone (or several someones) around here might be interested in this... :) Cheers, -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/