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Welcome to the gopher renaissance

Some useful gopher services:

Wikipedia front-end gopher://gopherpedia.com
Reddit front-end gopher://gopherddit.com

Discover new places:

gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta
gopher://gopher.black/1/moku-pona
gopher://gopher.club
gopher://tildeverse.org

Web proxies:

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Let's gather various gopher services here: (lemmy.sdf.org)

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There are many amazing projects and alternative front-ends strewn about the gopherverse, some of which can completely eliminate the dependency on their plain-web versions.

There are also holes that provide tools unique to gopher.

Let's make this thread an on the fly database of front-ends, services and useful tools.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

gopher://codevoid.de is one of my favorites - he has written scrapers for CNN news, Hackernews and Slashdot. The inimitable Cameron Kaiser wrote browser extensions for gopher : see http://gopher.floodgap.com. And then visit his excellent burrow at gopher://gopher.floodgap.com site for plenty of information on gopher client software (including web browsers that also understand gopher protocol). He also has a section with news scrapers (VoA, Kaiser Health, etc) and the Groundhog section that pulls NWS weather forecasts and radar imagery... I have been happy to utilize all these sites for years - I used gopher back before http was at all widespread (I had to telnet into cern.ch to use their text WWW browser). Heck, I looked at gopher sites with Mosaic since it also parses the gopher protocol. And I love being able to burrow around using the clients running on my collection of old workstations (Sun, SGI, NeXT). Long live port 70...