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When was the Last Time You Used Gopher?

Posted by Cliff on from the go-for dept.

ahuber asks: "As part of a class for LIS 391 @ the University of Illinois, I'm doing a history of the gopher protocol. My intent in this is to track the rise and fall of old technologies in hope that it tells us something about technologies we use today. So, my question to you is: When was the last time you used a gopher server? What did you use it for? And finally, do you miss the gopher now that its virtually gone? While some of you may think this is a silly topic, old and useful technologies are going the way of Gopher every day. One example from my campus is the retiring of the newsgroup server and telnet. Do you have any similar experiences that made you think twice about giving up an older technology?"

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  1. Re:The last time I used Gopher by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 3, Funny
    Nice to hear that *you* learned a TON.

    According to Julie, she learned very little the last time she used Gopher,
    but she was desperate as Doc and Captain Stubing were busy.

    --
    You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
  2. gopher? by jforr · · Score: 2, Funny


    You mean that damn *mumble mumble* gopher isn't dead yet? I thaught I gawt im wiph dah bunny c-4. That does it, I'm getting mydoom's gophinator 3000 and ending this once and for all. god damn *mumble mumble* gopher ruining my gauf course.

  3. Cooler business cards by JMax · · Score: 2, Funny

    The thing I miss most about gopher is that you got to say that you were the "gophermaster" -- that's gotta be 5x cooler than "webmaster" any day.

  4. I remember clearly when I last used gopher by nomadic · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needee a heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter' you'd say. Now where were we?

  5. about 8 yrs ago by dutch_admin · · Score: 1, Funny

    I used gopher sometimes when I could not find information what I was looking for on the web

    Still using the protocol to shut up people who are claiming that they are using 'the Internet for 20 years now' in chats etc.
    When I ask them how they liked Gopher, they mostly always say they don't watch Sesamestreet anymore...