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Gopher: A Present for Redis

by itamarhaber on 2/25/19, 5:38 PM with 18 comments

• by kevan on 2/26/19, 12:41 AM

  This is great. As a University of Minnesota graduate I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for gopher. Even in 2010 I remember we had some old gopher documentation floating around the IT department. Here's a summary[1] of its history.

  [1] https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph...

• by michaelangerman on 2/26/19, 2:57 AM

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494649

  Here is the link from Feb 25, 2009

  Note this number = 494649

  Today = 19 247493

  Nineteen (19) Million Posts etc later (mas o menos)

• by wayneftw on 2/26/19, 2:44 AM

  Very cool! Someone should update Wikipedia and add this as a Gopher server implementation.

  Perhaps soon there will also be a Revival section to add, if enough interest is generated. My curiosity has certainly been piqued!

• by panarky on 2/26/19, 1:03 AM

  Perfect protocol for low-bandwidth, text-only networks like Ubiquitilink.

  https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/25/ubiquitilink-advance-means...

• by kgwxd on 2/26/19, 3:24 AM

  Because of this post, I've spent the last few hours re-exploring gopher spaces on sdf.org. Half that time was spent reading xmanmonk's "What The...?" phlog from the start. I have no clue if they're real or just stories, but either way, they're great reads.

• by FerretFred on 2/26/19, 3:27 PM

  Gopher in 2019 sounds a bit strange.. Yes, but fun, and free from all the "value-added" crud that we usually have to put up with. My gopherhole is attracting around 1000 visitors monthly.

• by tmaly on 2/26/19, 5:05 AM

  Wow that brings back memories of the old dialup modems. I remember using gopher when I first got on the Internet.

• by piinbinary on 2/26/19, 2:01 AM

  Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/554/

• by ravedave5 on 2/26/19, 4:02 AM

  This is great. Time to install a gopher client.

• by jasonvorhe on 2/26/19, 1:29 PM

  Isn't this "everything that's new is bad, let's get back to old days" rather tiresome?

  Not trying to be the hater here. I'd just like to know what's so appealing about stuff where all the improvements we've had since the 80s aren't noticeable, like HiDPI displays, easy access to embedded 4k HDR video without requiring stuff like Flash or Silverlight.