Gopher is an interesting direction to go. I've been meaning to give it a try.
I was wondering if there's a desire to pass a few copies around, like the old debian or netbsd mirrors, to help maintain the content of these sites. I've seen a few go off-line in the last few years and don't want to lose the content. I know Internet Archive is struggling with various issues, so I was wondering if there's something a bit more home grown to participate in. ~Daniel On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 17:35 Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The future, for those of us who hate the technologies, budgets, and ick > > factor required to survive the post-web sewer, probably lies in static > > web sites. > > Or perhaps we go to a different protocol. Most of my file archives are only > accessible by Gopher, for example. Gopher spiders of course could be built > and > some web spiders try to do so through ill-configured Gopher proxies, but my > Gopher server contributes a lot less to my load average (and bandwidth > usage) > right now than the web server does. It's also easier to reason about the > bad > actors, since there are fewer of them. > > The Gemini crowd likely has some similar thoughts. > > -- > ------------------------------------ personal: > http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * > [email protected] > -- Advertising is the banging of a stick in a swillbucket. -- George > Orwell --- > >
