I’m proud to announce that 4d2.org is now available via my favorite Internet protocol: Gopher.
Feel free to jump down the gopher hole to gopher://gopher.4d2.org if you are using Firefox, Lynx, or another browser that supports Gopher. Our Gopher site is also available via HTTP if you’re using a browser like Internet Explorer that doesn’t support Gopher.
There’s not a whole lot there yet, but I have plans to add much more. The most prominent offering is currently our phlog (I did not invent this word, I swear). It’s essentially a plain-text version of this blog. The blog and phlog are regularly synchronized, so posts and comments added here should show up there within half an hour. This is made possible by a piece of software I wrote called WP2Gopher. The software and its documentation are available on the Gopher site.
In case you’ve forgotten about Gopher (or never heard of it), you might like to take a look at gopher://gopher.floodgap.com, which has some general information as well as one of two surviving Veronica search engines. It’s also available via HTTP for the Gopher-impaired.
Remember: Gopher never died, it just went underground. (nyuk, nyuk)
3 Comments
ha! thank you for the laugh, from one of your esteemed visitors who used gopher regularly in the past.
Thanks. I’m still trying to sort out a good way for people perusing the “phlog” to comment on posts. Maybe telnet?
Well, it was a stupid enough idea that I had to do it. You can now leave a comment by telnetting to 4d2.org. I’m leaving this comment through that system, in fact. Hurray for pointlessness!
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