Just a quick little hack I’ve been working on. Had to deal with things like yield return not working in try/catch blocks, and other fun things.
I would have had this actually running on a server, live, but the Mono SSL stack is buggered and you’d also need a caching proxy to avoid murderizing jcs' server.
Forgive me for not wanting to dive into the code, but what exactly is this? There’s no README.
Exactly what it says on the tin: A Lobsters to Gopher gateway. Lobsters posts come in one end, and it comes out into a Gopher menu.
Is this what you’re talking about? I’ve never heard of that before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
In 1993, I lobbied my boss hard to put the department’s data behind a Gopher server, as opposed to on the web as it was at the time. This is probably why I still have to work for a living instead of owning a fleet of private submarines.
I recently set up a gopher site for a friend of mine running for Seattle City Council (gopher.alonbassok.com) as something of a nerdy in-joke. He didn’t survive the primary, but I’m pretty certain there will be another run in his future. I’m currently paying $5/mo to digital ocean for the pleasures of being a gophermaster, and I’m contemplating setting up my own site on the same instance for novelty / maximization of investment reasons. I don’t know why I find this so fun, but I do. Probably the same reasons that you don’t own a fleet of private submarines.
Exactly. A simplistic, pre-web protocol. While not used today, it has its fans, and could be legitimately useful today.
I loved the idea of Gopher because it was quite easy to organize some information compared to how the web did it for a long time.
Gopher. I remember ye. This is my go to “I’m a 90’s kid” thing, in attempts to be cool and sound wise past my years. I’m 28.
The cool kids in my books have “I remember X.25, DECNET” moments. That truly sounded like a wild west for 10-18 year olds.
Now… how do you use it again? Been awhile old friend…
Gopher, awesome! Coincidentally my first comment on Lobsters was about Gopher. I just miss that protocol, because it was really content oriented rather than on how things look, and oh alright, I just enjoy a bit of nostalgia.
Anyway. A Gopher daemon exists that was written in Python. Search for pygopherd if you’re curious.