I think Gopher is definitely on-topic due to its age, and being a simple
hypertext system that is very well suited to classic computers with low
horsepower. (More about that in a few months.)
In the last few days I finished an extension for Firefox 2 and 3 with
improved support for Gopherspace in Mozilla, including a skinnable new
interface and CSO/ph/qi queries. I think people who haven't played in
Gopherspace in a long time will be surprised at the landscape. Even though
even UMN has abandoned the venerable
gopher.tc.umn.edu, the population has
shifted to small servers and personal sites and a frontier atmosphere that's
almost "the way it used to be." I still get an announcement about a new
server every week on average, which is not bad for an allegedly "dead"
protocol that's over 15 years old.
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/
or
http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/
or
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7685
I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions.
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