[Noisebridge-discuss] Gopher Archive - Download A Piece of Internet History

[Mike Rotondo]

Typing gopher://blah into your browser actually has nothing to do with the
web, it's just that some "web" browsers also support the gopher protocol (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Gopher_support_in_Web_browsers
)

Sai's talking about a website that exposes the gopher data, but doesn't use
the gopher protocol, which would indeed be sweet

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:

>
>
> > Someone needs to write a website interface to this.
>
>
> ?? One of the many reasons the web was successful was that it could
> still interface with other protocols.
>
> We had plenty of gopher://site.name URLs as well as the 'new'
> http://site.name
>  urls.
>
> Maybe I don't understand what was meant and am stating the obvious.
> >
>
>
> Glen
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