All of Gopherspace Available For Download 200
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."
Re:Far cry from "all of gopherspace" (Score:1, Funny)
Gopher (Score:5, Funny)
So does this mean we're getting 6 more weeks of winter or not?
Re:Pre-internet history? (Score:3, Funny)
They teach us the difference and why it no longer matters;P
Re:Wrong (Score:3, Funny)
I remember when fingering the gopher was totally normal.
Re:Anyone remember ARCHIE servers? (Score:4, Funny)
Sure, back when people knew the IPs of their local archie and simtel archives.
Those where the days...
Re:The Ultimate Lesson in Open Source and Standard (Score:3, Funny)
I prefer to believe that Gopher failed because the world wasn't ready for the awe-inspiring virtual reality experience that was TurboGopher VR.
Re:Shame on Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
since gopher came AFTER the birth of the internet (1981) but before the widespread usage of the web (circa 1993).
I hope you don't mean the birth of the Internet was in 1981. Or maybe you typoed 1991 (when Wikipedia says gopher was released)? I thought gopher was actually a bit older than that.
I just wish people would stop holding onto FTP like they were Charlton Heston.
Re:What a terrible Marketting line (Score:3, Funny)
new furniture?
Re:Gopher lives! (Score:4, Funny)
Dozens of servers ought to be enough for anybody.
Re:Far cry from "all of gopherspace" (Score:4, Funny)
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
Re:Far cry from "all of gopherspace" (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Yes, pre-internet (Score:1, Funny)
Sure, the gopher protocol has been around a *lot* longer than the internet.
Gophers have been around for thousands or millions of years--who knows? They dig their tunnels, which, as anyone can see, are tubes. As the former senator from Alaska has told us, the internet is a bunch of tubes. Well, those gophers have had their tubes a lot longer than Jon Postel's tubes, haven't they?
Well, there you go.
Re:Shame on Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Where do the tubes come in? Are they buried under the superhighway?