Playing around with the gopher protocol. Description of gopher from the 1995 book "Student's Guide to the Internet" by David Clark. Also, at the end of the episode is audio from an interview with Mark McCahilll and Farhad Anklesaria that can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR76UI7aTvs
Check out http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
File Info: 27 Min, 13 MB.
Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk264/bsdtalk264.ogg
Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.
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Important talking points by the developers of the protocol and distributed document delivery system. Simple. Low bandwidth requirements. Most importantly, the server makes order out of chaos. I uses a universal file hierarchy that transcends system architectures. Bonus include bookmarks and an indexed search engine (I didn't know they began with Gopher). Coolness points for using TurboGopher during the demonstration.
SDF (freeshell.org) offers gopherspace on their NetBSD servers.
http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher
I reaquainted myself with Gopher after a too-long absence. On sdf, my acct (kudut), I put a copy of the Dewey Decimal (DDC) schedule in folders and then used a marvelous AI designed as a helper for librarians to give its opinion as to where my collections of out of context writings since 1989 (nothing of significance) would go as if they were a part of a library that blew up and it needed to be pieced together. 35000+ of them and gopher has had no problem with speedy document delivery. [It's a weird weekend project I've been on since Friday - but it's an idea I've wanted to do for a couple of years now, and Gopher was the perfect medium for depositing the content].
-Ken [kudut] @ sdf
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