Something to read this weekend; the internet user’s manual. I remember the time I used gopher, finger and talk commands on my modem terminal and chat with US students. #sdf#retrocomputing#gopher
I am starting to think I may look into Gemini instead of Gopher; not that I have any less interest in Gopher, but Gemini seems interesting and let's see what happens ...
I still have a lot to dig around and read about though, I'd hazard. And decisions to make, if I want to have a capsule of my own.
First to start with something to browse around geminispace ...
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... are you okay? Do you need help doing archival work? this isn't shade, we just saw the long tail of the gopherspace forced offline with the move to http everywhere.
Are you holding on to a gopher only site for someone who's passed? DM me and I'll help you save a copy some place more durable than a personal or academic server sitting on someone's desk or in a closet. Let's save the remnants of the old gopherspace before they go offline entirely.
YEAH YEAH, There is Mozilla corp and Mozilla foundation, but none of them give a shit about Firefox. And as I know there is no way to donate to Firefox directly. So I give a dawn what happens to the fucking Mozilla, I so worry about Firefox future.
@jrballesteros05 I worry about this too. While #Firefox is free and open source software, meaning anyone can take over maintenance theoretically, the source is also a huge mess which is getting increasingly hard to figure out what's where, and why things work a certain way. Back when they had an IRC channel they actively refused to explain how certain things worked either, which didn't really help in spreading the knowledge to keep Firefox going into the indefinite future.
Sadly, #Chromium is only acting on the whims of #Google and therefore cannot be trusted as a reasonable competitor, and I don't expect any new browser engines to be made given how ridiculously complex the web has been made.
Sometimes I think it'd be better to just give up and use #Gopher instead, but the world won't just move with me and I'd still be forced to use a regular web browser for many things, such as banking or dealing with the government.
Been slowly adding things to the bahai.fyi #Gemini capsule. Mainly archives of content from #USENET, Reddit, and old blogs so far. Lots of reading material, for the fun of it. One thing that's been fun is being reminded how commonly one came across #Gopher, #IRC, anonymous FTP, and even finger back in the mid- to late 90s. The web was just a small part of the online experience at that time.
#lisp#CommonLisp#gopher#vhdl
I talk about the trivial basis for this month on a microcode implementation for @amszmidt 's #CADR4 lisp machine in vhdl using a mixture of lisp and Reichenbacher. links v
If you're posting a link on Mastodon, you'll probably want to add https:// to the beginning so it is clickable.
For example fedi.tips isn't clickable but https://fedi.tips is clickable.
The reason https:// is required is in case people want to include dots in words or phrases without accidentally creating links.
p.s. Techy people might like to know that many non-web link types also work on here: https://, http://, gemini://, dat://, dweb://, gopher://, ipfs:// ssb://
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