• Gopher client for Synchronet?

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to All on Fri Oct 4 10:25:00 2019
    Ok, someone's developing a Gopher client for Mystic. Does anyone want to
    take up the challenge and create one for Synchronet?

    I liked running Gopher on my BBS, but clients became harder and harder to find. I'd love to have a gopherspace door/client on my BBS, think it would
    fit into the general BBS scene nicely.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Oct 6 00:40:02 2019
    Re: Gopher client for Synchronet?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Fri Oct 04 2019 06:25 am

    Ok, someone's developing a Gopher client for Mystic. Does anyone want to take up the challenge and create one for Synchronet?

    I've been using the internet since 1995, and I've never even used Gopher..

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Sun Oct 6 12:03:00 2019
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Ok, someone's developing a Gopher client for Mystic. Does anyone want to take up the challenge and create one for Synchronet?

    I've been using the internet since 1995, and I've never even used
    Gopher..

    Gopher, Archie, Veronica - they were the tools of the internet up until the web took over. Archie was a list of files on Gopher sites, and Veronica was
    a list of the menus, so you could search across all of gopherspace. Coming from a BBS and shell account background, it was like a text-based web.


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Nightfox on Mon Oct 7 13:24:00 2019
    On 10-05-19 20:40, Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Re: Gopher client for Synchronet?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Fri Oct 04 2019 06:25 am

    Ok, someone's developing a Gopher client for Mystic. Does anyone want to take up the challenge and create one for Synchronet?

    I've been using the internet since 1995, and I've never even used
    Gopher..

    I used to use Gopher heaps in 1994 - 96, then I switched to web based search engines.


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Oct 7 13:31:00 2019
    On 10-06-19 08:03, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Gopher, Archie, Veronica - they were the tools of the internet up until the web took over. Archie was a list of files on Gopher sites, and Veronica was a list of the menus, so you could search across all of gopherspace. Coming from a BBS and shell account background, it was
    like a text-based web.

    Yes, and you could search with Veronica, then jump from gopher to gopher in ways not too dissimilar to the web, but menu based, rather than hyperlinked. I remember experiencing hyperlinks on the web for the first time (using Lynx), after much experience with Veronica and Gopher and thinking "This is really cool". :)


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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Oct 6 23:53:39 2019
    Ok, someone's developing a Gopher client for Mystic. Does anyone want to
    take up the challenge and create one for Synchronet?

    I liked running Gopher on my BBS, but clients became harder and harder to find. I'd love to have a gopherspace door/client on my BBS, think it would fit into the general BBS scene nicely.

    ... If it isn't broken, I can fix it.
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    Didn’t Synchronet have gopher on it years ago? I remember the name.

    $ The Millionaire $

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