Why Gopher lost to HTML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Stagnation

by AndrewWarner • 17 years ago

25 18 17 years ago

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rrival• 17 years ago

TurboGopher VR had such potential.

xal• 17 years ago

I like the image of Firefox 1.5 on that page. That was my favorite iteration of their UI.

Legion• 17 years ago

That's almost exactly what Firefox 3.5 looks like for me in Linux. No oversized back button or anything like the default Windows theme.

I imagine there's probably a classic icon theme that will change the icons to match those old ones.

sp332• 17 years ago

There are lots of themes at http://addons.mozilla.org , they even have a retro category. Foxscape, for example, goes all the way back to Netscape theme. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4083

pbhjpbhj5• 17 years ago

I surfed the gopher net and all I got was this lousy URL - gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/ (works in FF + others).

"Also, Internet Explorer should NOT be used at ALL! (I'll explain presently).", see gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/wbgopher

Edit: first it's poor links2 support, now no linkifying of gopher links, shocking ...

tvon4• 17 years ago

Your standard Linux distro probably has the gopher command line client installed. I'm slightly disappointed that its not in OSX.

pbhjpbhj5• 17 years ago

It's not on my Kubuntu and I'd be a bit upset if it was - why include it? Especially as the major browsers have gopher support.

blasdel• 17 years ago

I've long maintained that WAP was bitpacked Gopher via Telegram

I_got_fifty2• 17 years ago

How do I get a gopher domain-name?

tvon4• 17 years ago

Domain names are not protocol-specific.

I_got_fifty2• 17 years ago

No gopher names? Oh, well... my GopherDaddy! empire probably wouldn't have been very successful anyway..

pbhjpbhj5• 17 years ago

You have a standard domain name (as siblings note) and run a gopher server via that name. You'll have to have your own server (or virtual server) as I can't really imagine any hosting company allows gopher servers?!

rsayers• 17 years ago

The best client to use on a graphical system Firefox with the Overbite extension: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/d?ff3

For console use Lynx is what I prefer and seems to be popular for that.

Shameless Plug: gopher://gopher.robsayers.com

figital• 17 years ago

What's the name of your gopher server software?

Why Gopher lost to HTML

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