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On 2014-02-10, wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I miss gopher. :)

You're probably kidding, but just for laughs, check out Mateusz Viste
over at newsgroup comp.infosystems.gopher.  He's written a new gopher
server in Python, called Motsognir.  It's ANSI C and he's hoping to get
it running on ARM.  It's pretty fascinating.  

Also checkout gopherpedia,
by a guy who scrapes wikipedia and makes it avaialble on gopher,
primarily (I think) for the intellectual challenge.  It's surprisingly
usable, and you get the same amount of information in about 1/10th of
the download, since it's text instead of HTML.  Pretty neat.

We're not the only nostalgic geeks around here ...