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512 MB  Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! 
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Reply #30 on: March 02, 2023, 11:46
Oh yeah, those blissful days of PCMCIA. The young folk don't know what they are missing out on here. ;-) I got my Eudora up & running and so I approach a stage where I'll have my "perfect system" ready - knowing its gonna be the lost operating system I'll ever customize to perfection for the rest of my life. Makes me think a lot about the past, were we came from, were we are headed and why so many things went so terribly wrong along the way. |
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #31 on: March 02, 2023, 16:11
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This gopher.system7today.com is working very nice for my setup. It fits well with a workflow that I like. Cyberdog uses different editors to handle different protocols and it can switch easily betweeb them. If a link on an http site is to a gopher space, Cyberdog just opens tha link using gopher. Then like icing on the cake if I wish to go back, I can just hit the back button. Then like magic I go back from gopher space to html. ftp can aslo be surfed to directly. So I can move from html to gopher to ftp just using the back and forward buttons. Telnet opens a new window, however if a telnet link is found in either an html or gopher space, a telent window will open for that link. Any url can be added to the Notebook, so doucments on your hard drive, so the Cyberdog Notebook can be used as a ready launching pad for any url remote or local. Probably not well remembered, but Cyberdog was the first browser that allowed you to drag a link from the location bar to the desktop, creating an icon that when double clicked would open the url whether it be local or remote. I am in hog heaven, happy as a clam and having more fun than a barrel of monkeys falling back into a workflow that I have not regularily used for many years.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #32 on: February 27, 2024, 16:33
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Quite some time since I've shared a Gopher link, here's a nice collection of jpg files of old computer ads. IBM, Apple ... some fun ads from (quote) "times when life was simpler." gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/attic/old%20technology%20ads Another nice Gopherhole is from d1337 about Authentic 1990's Life. In a series of posts he describes how he worked for Radio Shack "toward the end of what I think was its heyday" (quote), about the 90's BBS and Elite BBS scene and memories from the early internet days. I found it an excellent read that brought back some memories: gopher://sdf.org/1/users/d1337/1990s-life
Last Edit: February 27, 2024, 16:36 by Bolkonskij
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #33 on: February 28, 2024, 14:54
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Another nice Gopher treasure found - a mirror of old Phrack ezines. Quote Phrack' is an ezine written by and for hackers, first published November 17, 1985. Described by Fyodor as "the best, and by far the longest running hacker zine," the magazine is open for contributions by anyone who desires to publish remarkable works or express original ideas on the topics of interest. It has a wide circulation which includes both hackers and computer security professionals." gopher://gopher.fnord.one/1/Mirrors/Phrack/
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #34 on: March 02, 2024, 06:57
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And making it a triple - here's an awesome Gopherhole that allows you to check stock quotes, prices for precious metals, play some games and many other things! gopher://magical.fish/ Gopher really is the way to go for older Mac OS versions. There's so much functionality in there waiting to be discovered. If this is pursued, it might one day even be able to replace the over-commercialized WWW of today for us retro fans.
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mac-cellar
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128 MB Posts: 176 Gotta love System 7
Reply #35 on: March 02, 2024, 17:19
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Thanks for bringing these gopher holes to the surface, Bolkonskij. Love finding new and clever uses of Gopher.
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snes1423
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256 MB Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina
Reply #36 on: March 02, 2024, 17:20
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And here is gopher on my iMac G4 17" mid 2002 running panther 10.3.2 with firefox 0.8 http://revontulet.org/2024/03/02/8b7aac588b8f4a859880f38f5e688f01.jpg
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #37 on: December 21, 2024, 11:53
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*push* Something I discovered during my recent System-6-limited-to-Gopher adventures is that somebody made a Gopher frontend for the Mac Garden. It allows you to search for software directly from Gopher. (and download it, naturally) gopher://phytocodex.porcupine.club/1
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #38 on: December 21, 2024, 15:25
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Going down a rabbit hole here ... ran into this page, which is ... hard to describe in a few words because it was modelled after the interests of an individual, not a google search term. gopher://gopher.endangeredsoft.org/1/90sweb Quote Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering was truly unique. The mirror here serves as a time capsule of 90s web design, a history of the software cracking subculture, and a lesson on 90s programming techniques and technologies.
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