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| 1 | 1 | laforge | h1. Gopher |
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| 3 | Gopher is a distributed, menu driven, text-based system for information retrieval on the Internet. It's a predecessor in many ways to the [much later] HTTP based Web as we know it today. |
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| 5 | For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) |
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| 7 | h2. Gopher clients |
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| 9 | 2 | laforge | h3. For modern OS / environment |
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| 11 | 2 | laforge | * "OverbiteWX Firefox Extension":http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ |
| 12 | * "Burrow Gopherspace Explorer for Chrome":https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/burrow-gopherspace-explor/plhaaggiajlcjclagmjnjmaonhkdhhji |
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| 13 | * https://github.com/kieselsteini/cgo (C language / console) |
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| 14 | * https://github.com/prologic/gopherclient (Go language using Webview) |
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| 16 | h3. Historical clients |
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| 18 | * "original University of Minnesota gopher+":https://github.com/jgoerzen/gopher (builds on modern Linux) |
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| 20 | 1 | laforge | h2. Public gopher on the Internet |
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| 22 | * Wikipedia gopher interface: gopher://gopherpedia.com/1 |
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| 23 | * List of gopher servers: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world |
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| 26 | TBD |
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| 28 | h2. Gopher in Osmocom Retro-Networking |
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| 30 | We don't have concrete plans as to offering gopher services. |
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| 32 | It would be nice if somebody would develop a converter script that renders gopher versions of the CCC Event schedule (Fahrplan), see #4242 |
