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All of Gopherspace Available For Download
An anonymous reader writes "Cory Doctorow tells us that '[i]n 2007, John Goerzen scraped every gopher site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to the Web; I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000 documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he's making the entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed data is only 15GB. Wanna host the entire history of a medium? Here's your chance!' Get yourself a piece of pre-Internet history (torrent)." Update: 04/30 00:16 GMT by T: As several readers have pointed out below, our anonymous friend probably meant to say "pre-Web," rather than "pre-Internet."
So does this mean we're getting 6 more weeks of winter or not?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Sure, back when people knew the IPs of their local archie and simtel archives.
Those where the days...
Dozens of servers ought to be enough for anybody.
Because as most users of the internet he wasnt accurate about the unit.
From the context one can assume (without that big a risk of error) that he is indeed speaking about gigabyte, and not gigabit.
Buuut, anal responses are more important than content. We know this :-p
Stop making fun of him, he's not Turing tested yet. In a few years, he'll start noticing some changes and then he'll grow up to be a big boy AI that can interact with the rest of us.