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04/12/2004 08:48 PMGopher: Underground
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04/26/2004 06:09 AMNet-Gopher-1.07
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04/25/2004 12:16 AMNet-Gopher-1.06
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04/22/2004 10:32 AMNet-Gopher-1.15
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05/27/2004 05:59 AMNet-Gopher-1.10
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04/29/2004 12:37 AMNet-Gopher-1.11
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04/30/2004 12:37 AMNet-Gopher-1.12
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05/02/2004 12:22 AMNet-Gopher-Response-XML-0.90
Net-Gopher-Response-XML-0.90
05/07/2004 06:18 AMGopher Still Going Strong
Gopher Still Going Strong
04/12/2004 12:53 PMIn 1993, most of my internet usage was based around email and gopher.
Gopher, if you didn't use it, is a pre-web internet protocol for
presenting text with hypertext links. I used to use gopher to check
the weather report every morning. It wasn't long after I became
addicted to gopher that I first heard about the "web" which I was told
would replace gopher. It certainly made sense, though, I assumed the
web was only a stepping stone to the next technology that would go
beyond the web. It seems that the web became quite a lot more than I
expected, and gopher has pretty much disappeared completely -
excep
t that it hasn't. There are some people who are still actively
maintaining gopher sites and are even pushing for it to be used in
more areas - such as for wireless devices. Of course, I'm not sure
what (if any) advantages gopher really has over WAP, which didn't
exactly set the world on fire as a wireless protocol for displaying
hyperlinked text info on wireless devices (though, is now finding new
uses more fitting for the technology).
Remembering gopher
Remembering gopher
04/12/2004 06:17 AMLore "Brunching Shuttlecocks" Sjöberg has turned in a lyrical
reminiscence about the glory days of gopher, the Web's predecessor. My
first net-job (after the CDROM crash in the early 90s) was as a
commerical gopher developer, and it turns out that were are lots of
gopher sites still online:
Despite its relative obscurity, gopherspace is accessible to many more
Web users than people realize. Gopher support is built into
Mozilla-based browsers including Firefox, most versions of Netscape
and Internet Explorer up to version 5, although the degree of support
varies. People who want to stick with the familiarity of http can use
the public gopher proxy at Floodgap.com, which translates gopher pages
into HTML.
Visitors to gopherspace will find a piece of the Internet's history,
some of which, Goerzen says, isn't available anywhere else. They will
also find The Gopher Manifesto, a document praising gopher's
simplicity and elegance.
The Gopher Manifesto describes gopher as "a hypertext Eden" that
existed before the clutter and commercialization of the Web. "Is it
time for a new Renaissance on the Internet, to bring back the promise
of the early years?" it asks.
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Gopher-Mechanize-0.27
Gopher-Mechanize-0.27
01/24/2004 05:35 AMWhatever Happened to Gopher?
Whatever Happened to Gopher?
04/28/2004 05:53 AMWhatever Happened to Gopher?http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62988,00.html Answer: the Gopher protocol developed in the 1990s at the
University of Minnesota may have been eclipsed by the World Wide Web,
but it's alive and kicking (even if somewhat underground).
Floodgap.com shows that more than 250 active gopher servers are
currently online (almost half of affiliated with American colleges and
universities) and can be found on every continent but Africa and
Antarctica. Gopher-enthusiast John Goerzen believes that gopher is an
excellent alternative to PDA and smartphone Web browsers, and says:
"Consider this example: Port-a-Goph, a gopher client in development
for Palm OS. Cameron Kaiser wrote this in his spare time and got it
working quickly on his own Palm," he said. "Contrast that with the
state of Web browsing on handheld devices: Despite many years to
improve them, I still regularly run across Web sites that simply do
not render at all, or render so poorly that they are unusable."
My LinkSeries Internet Guides were written in 1992 - 1994 that
list all the gopher sites for academic research and were used in
academic libraries around the world in search of scholarly information
from the Internet. These have been replaced and updated with my latest
2004
Internet
MiniGuides.
Aftershock Gopher Server
Aftershock Gopher Server
11/13/2003 03:02 AMAftershock 1.0 Released
Gopher Hole Found in Microsoft IE
Gopher Hole Found in Microsoft IE
06/05/2002 01:41 PMFinnish computer security company Online Solutions Oy says IE is
vulnerable to attack through its gopher client.
"a report that Gopher is still alive and
kicking"
"a report that Gopher is still alive and
kicking"
04/13/2004 10:28 PMHOWTO turn your bl0g into a gopher site
HOWTO turn your bl0g into a gopher site
04/04/2005 02:24 AMCory Doctorow:
George Hotelling's April Fools' Day prank was converting his blog to a
gopher site -- gopher being a text-only, menu-driven precursor of the
Web ("gopherlog, or rlog for short"). In so doing, he created some
scripts to simplify the process. He's posted them online for anyone
who wants to convert her or his blog to a gopher site.
First, you need to get and install PyGopherd. It's fairly simple, just
download it and follow the instructions in the manual to install it,
then configure a directory for it to serve. I told it to serve
~/public_html/gopher/ but any directory will do.
Then, download feedparser, html2text and this script of my own design
to create text files from an RSS feed. Set the output directory to the
same one that your gopher server is using, set the RSS feed to your
RSS feed and you're more or less done. For extra fun, put the script
in a cron job so that it will keep updating with new items. If you do
that, you'll also need to rm the old files (which really should be
done in my script, but see the part above about this being a hack that
needed to work in a couple hours).
There's plenty of room for improvement. For instance you could write a
Python script for PyGopherd to parse the RSS feeds, which would cut
down on all sorts of problems and be useful to literally tens of
people.
Link
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via Waxy)
Going underground
Going underground
04/05/2005 08:29 AM
What is it with the
London Underground and the
internet? As many MeFi posts have noted
before, no other
subway system in the world has quite as many websites and applications
devoted to it (why is this?). Until now the bulk of these applications
have been based around maps, but the 'tube' has just got an
independent site that is story-based. The brand new site at
www.yourstation.co.uk wants
you to write stories about the networks famous stations. Each gets its
own homepage, you fill it with stories or simply read those that have
gone before. Want to know how
Mudchute
got its name? You now know where to look.
3G Going Underground
3G Going Underground
06/11/2004 05:16 AM3G Jun 11 2004 8:52AM GMT
3D Underground Map
3D Underground Map
11/16/2003 03:41 AM3D Tube Maps
recenda.f9.co.uk/pages/tubemap.htm
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Copywriting goes Underground
Copywriting goes Underground
06/22/2005 02:58 AM
The London Underground is home to some of the most interesting,
weird and
fun adverts, which have been tailored to the fact that they have huge
posters that passengers are often looking at for minutes at a time
while waiting. In Copywriting goes Underground, they challenged ad
agencies to write an ad which had at least 50 words in it. Some are
crap, but some are pretty innovative -
check them
out.
Underground History
Underground History
04/12/2004 07:29 AMthis site that deals with abandoned/disused stations in the London
Underground .. Underground ..
starfury.demon.co.uk/uground
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Weather-Underground-2.18
Weather-Underground-2.18
05/15/2004 05:25 PMThe Virus Underground
The Virus Underground
02/10/2004 02:55 AMYoung people around the world spend their Saturday nights writing
fiendishly contagious computer viruses and worms. Are they artists,
pranksters or techno-saboteurs?
Weather-Underground-2.19
Weather-Underground-2.19
06/08/2004 05:21 PMUnderground movies
Underground movies
09/08/2004 07:14 AM
David Pescovitz:
I'm disappointed that I missed catching a flick in a secret
cinema/restaurant below the streets of Paris. Police discovered the
theater--complete with electricity, CCTV security, and phone
lines--within an uncharted cavern in the city's 170 miles of tunnels
and caves. According to The Guardian, a full-size screen and projector
had been installed and police found "a wide variety of films,
including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers." A
stocked bar and "pressure-cooker for making couscous" was also
discovered.
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by
experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was
coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note
was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find
us."
Link (Thanks, DMD!)
Weather-Underground-2.12
Weather-Underground-2.12
11/13/2003 06:34 AMWeather-Underground-2.17
Weather-Underground-2.17
05/07/2004 05:41 PMThere's a world going on, underground.
There's a world going on, underground.
04/04/2005 12:41 PM
Detroit: city
of auto manufacture, crime, Motown and...
mining? Take this with a
grain of
s
alt, but beneath the city of Detroit Michigan, there is a
vast underground
mine.
Weather-Underground-2.11
Weather-Underground-2.11
10/31/2003 05:00 AMNotes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground
03/17/2005 03:47 AMToday at SXSW in Austin, WIRED music editor Eric Steurer,
red-hot remix artist DJ
Reset, and I talked on a panel about "Notes from the Underground:
The Rise of Remix Culture." As fits the subject, there was some very
good audience participation and back-and-forth, and Reset told some
good anecdotes about living on the bleeding edge of digital
creativity.
Check out this
recent story on DJ Reset from the New Yorker's Sasha
Frere-Jones.
Need For Speed: Underground
Need For Speed: Underground
12/02/2003 01:19 AMJust saw a commercial for Need For Speed: Underground and was in awe.
Focus on a nice Nissan Maxima in a garage and then...
Need For Speed Underground
Need For Speed Underground
08/31/2004 02:32 AMTechTree Aug 31 2004 6:28AM GMT
Animals on the Underground
Animals on the Underground
02/15/2004 03:45 PM
Sometimes it is a totally obvious and simple idea that is the most
brilliant. Animals
on the Underground is just that sort of brilliant, simple idea.
Constellations of stars have been illustrated for centuries using the
connect the dots technique, but applying it to the underground station
map is clever and the animals are adorable. Maybe I'll dig out my
underground map and try to find a few new ones.
The underground Beatle
The underground Beatle
04/29/2004 07:45 AMA fantastic documentary that explains the curious, tragic life of
Brian Epstein -- the man behind John, Paul, George and Ringo -- makes
a rare U.S. appearance.
Weather-Underground-2.13
Weather-Underground-2.13
01/02/2004 06:05 PMWeather-Underground-2.16
Weather-Underground-2.16
05/05/2004 05:05 PMUnderground hits
Underground hits
02/19/2004 08:41 AMChicago Tribune Feb 19 2004 1:22PM GMT
Need for Speed Underground 2
Need for Speed Underground 2
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