Gopher protocol

>>59297584
It's cool, but there is nothing new to read over Gopher. Someone should make a Gopher mirror of /g/.

>>59298810
I'd give that traffic.

>>59298861
I'd give your mom traffic.

>>59298903
How about my mom?

>>59297584
Share your gopher links.

>>59298810
I'll make the logo

>>59298933
your mom will get some ass traffic

>>59298810
>Someone should make a Gopher mirror of /g/
gopher://khzai.net/1/phourchan/g/59297584

Too bad Gopher is on the technical level of HTTP 0.9. It would be a real improvement if you could add a simple size response header and have it running on a persistent connection.

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>>59297584
I've seen some neat threads where /g/ makes a web page, how about a Gopherhole?

gopher://khzai.net/1/ftp/g

(http://khzai.net/1/ftp/g works too if you don't have a Gopher client/plugin)

>>59302080
User input is also a little lacking compared to HTTP. In Gopher0 (non-Gopher+) you really only have search queries (compare to single-line text input and GET parameters in HTTP).

Gopher+ began adding metadata about items (response headers) and forms (like HTML forms) but the UMN client and server are the only ones that fully support it, and they are outdated in other regards compared to "modern" Gopher servers and clients like Lynx or plugins like Overbite.

>>59299884
Make a cool ASCII logo and I'll put it on http://khzai.net/1/phourchan instead of that generic Figlet banner.

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>>59303759
Hey, that turned out alright

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>>59303759
Big, but definitely cool
gopher://khzai.net/1/phourchan

>>59300424
Is this a new thing?

>>59305108
Yes, I only started putting stuff on gopher://khzai.net around the start of this year.

>>59298810
You can read /g/'s favourite comic
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/fun/xkcd

>>59303837

heh, even works on Android.

>>59297584
What are the advantages of gopher over HTTP/HTTPS?

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>>59307031
Downloading doesn't work in overbite, because that will be for the 'next' release. (Which, will never happen by the way. But you can browse gopherholes and I am happy enough with that for now)

>>59307058
Gopher is simpler. You have plain text menus that navigate just like browsing a file directory. You don't have cookies, Flash, HTML/CSS/Javascript, web apps, tracking, ads, etc.

Technically you can serve those things over Gopher if you have a client that can understand them (like a web browser) so the advantage is less in the protocol and more in the idea. Gopher is content with no frills.

I think if Gopher had very basic styling and a templating system for fetching content from a URL whenever acted on, it could have went somewhere.
Templating needs no client scripting, just a dynamic form essentially, but for displaying data instead. (in fact, pretty much like HTML5 templating)
Speaking about very simple formatting though, not full on page styling. (at best, viewport background, current field background and foreground)

It could have easily still existed on text delivery systems that are frequently used today, but not use stupidly over complicated HTML, CSS and JS because default HTML layouts fucking suck.

I was thinking recently how cool it would be to have a text based internet, a retronet if you will, to be accessed using a terminal. Like every thing would be stripped down, like in those 90s movies where a kid logs in to some corporate site using a computer at the mall. Could be comfy and a good way to consume text without distractions. Is Gopher anything like that?

What's the most patrician Gopher browser?

>>59307731
Install lynx

>>59307778
The one you wrote