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All of Gopherspace Available For Download

Posted by timothy on from the gopherspace-is-negative-space dept.

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."

2 of 200 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Far cry from "all of gopherspace" by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why would you state your disk sizes in gigabit?

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  2. Re:Shame on Slashdot? shame on ME by silverglade00 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude, I heard you were new so I asked if you were new so I could find out if you were new while I asked if you were new.