Might as well chime in :D I know more about the Gopher protocol than pretty much anyone (in 2017? how useful!) and I'm the author of pretty much the only remaining up-to-date gopher server software. Also own a M100, M102, NC100, Z88 + various other old laptops.
The biggest problem implementing a gopher client is the lack of memory - it doesn't take a long article to fill up the ~20K that's available of the 32K free memory after counting in the gopher code. Other than that the protocol is dead simple, can be implemented without keeping state and needs no fuzzy parsing logic of any kind because it's very strict and hierarchical. - Kim > On 03 Aug 2017, at 10:06, James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ray I might like to bend your ear, as I've been toying with setting up gopher > on my PiDP-8. > > James > > > > On 2 Aug 2017 11:24 p.m., "Ray Lopez" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > I run a gopher server at gopher://ratthing.com <http://ratthing.com/>. It > can be reached via > http proxy at http://ratthing.com:7780 <http://ratthing.com:7780/>. > > I'm always glad to help out with setting up or hosting services. > > RL > > On 8/2/17 8:03 AM, John Gardner wrote: > > Something for you guys interested in getting on-line to think about... > > > > > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwek8/long-live-gopher-the-techies-keeping-the-text-driven-internet-alive > > <https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwek8/long-live-gopher-the-techies-keeping-the-text-driven-internet-alive> >
