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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."
Gopher was fun, especially digging it out of the hole and sticking my carrot* into all of its orifices. They don't explode if you wrap 'em with duct tape before you give'em the ol' garden vegetable up the knothole.
* Foreskin is recommended because it is better suited to buck-toothed gnawing. A good gopher will chew a foreskin like bubble gum, chop chop!
The internet Al Gore invented? :)
Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that
Why would you state your disk sizes in gigabit?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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.
This definition is probably looser than most, but here's a quick and dirty view. Hotel Kastil Bol