{"id":712,"date":"2006-07-18T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=449"},"modified":"2006-07-18T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T18:33:00","slug":"parley-vous-gopher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/712","title":{"rendered":"Parley-vous ''gopher''?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m obviously going to have to add to this item … I just stopped by ”Gopher still going strong” on Kottke.org<\/a> to post this comment:<\/p>\n

“Gopher still hot? Dang right! I’m still getting hits in my blog from this post. Can we say that it (gopher) is paradigmatic of “long tail”?<\/p>\n

K … what’s going on here? I know a) I get fed up with just how bloated FF is and b) it’s sometimes a perk to use telnet and\/or pine. Maybe some of us really appreciate sleek \/ parsimonious?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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p.s. Thinking about the interface I’m cobbling together for my “Participatory Deliberation” is where sleek\/parsimonious came up. When I slip into that mode I see Web2.0 as spring-loaded and self-evident. A series\/collection\/suite of single-page apps?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

X-posted to Togo at LiveJournal<\/a><\/p>\n

You know about WWW-browsers (obviously), and you very likely know about FTP … and maybe about IRC, too.<\/p>\n

Do you know about “gopher”? Gopher pre-dates WWW, like IRC and newsgroups (NNTP), and email … it was a way of allowing folk to access other people’s files, kinda like a web browser, but it didn’t rely on HTML pages.<\/p>\n

Here’s a blast from the past that’s still appropriate today: “ A Practical Guide to Defeating The Radical Right<\/a>” and “Directory: Cyberpunk and Postmodern Culture<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Some of the documents in there date back to 1994 … around the time I started publishing web pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m obviously going to have to add to this item … I just stopped by ”Gopher still going strong” onRead the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n

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