Hi,

Yep, I do because I do Linux/Unix/Web admin/coding/<buzzword-compliant things> 
for living. You're welcome to email me directly if it's not about M100 & 
relatives.


- Kim


> On 03 Aug 2017, at 10:21, James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hey Kim
> 
> 
> You much experience with Linux + Gopher?
> 
> James
> 
> 
> On 3 Aug 2017 8:15 a.m., "Kim Holviala" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 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] 
>> <mailto:[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>
>> 
> 

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