from wikipedia
As of
2012[update]<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gopher_%28protoco…n=edit>,
there are approximately 160 gopher servers indexed by
Veronica-2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_%28computer%29>
,[15] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#cite_note-14>reflecting
a slow growth from 2007 when there were fewer than 100,
[16] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#cite_note-15>although
many are infrequently updated. Within these servers Veronica
indexed approximately 2.5 million unique selectors. A handful of new
servers are set up every year by hobbyists ? over 50 have been set up and
added to Floodgap's list since
1999.[17]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#cite_note-1…
snapshot of Gopherspace as it was in 2007 was circulated on
BitTorrent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29> and is
still
available.[18]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#cite_n…
to the simplicity of the Gopher protocol, setting up new servers or
adding Gopher support to browsers is often done in a tongue in
cheek<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_in_cheek>mannermanner, principally
on April
Fools' Day
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day>.[19]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#cite_note-18>
[20] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#cite_note-19>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:12 PM, John Many Jars <
john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Cameron Kaiser
<spectre at floodgap.com>
wrote:
...
another classic service dies... first Gopher (Archie, etc) now
Ceefax (teletext)!
Who said Gopher was dead? There are more servers now than there were five
years ago.
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/
Gopher is clearly a niche access method but it exists as a semi-darknet
still. Google doesn't own us (yet).
Right, you're tempting me to write a gopher interface for something...
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