This is an ‘html-only’ version of Scribblings with no database behind it. This means it is not possible to search it. I am working on a new version with which I am hoping to eventually put back into the main site. The new version is here but please note that there is no link directly back to the main site.
Tuesday, 13th April 2004
Watch out there’s a gopher about
Back when I first started using the Internet for anything other than email the latest thing was Gopher servers. These were a bit like the Web but without the snazzy display capabilities and were a more friendly way of serving files than FTP.
I’m surprised to find that there are still Gopher servers around. I’m even more surprised to find that some modern web browsers still support the Gopher protocol (Firefox, Netscape 7 and Internet Explorer 5 among them).
There’s a list of servers here running on an http proxy. There’s a genuine Gopher server here if your browser supports the protocol with a web version here if your browser doesn’t support Gopher.
As this article at Wired points out Gopher could enjoy something of a comeback as it’s ideal for presenting information for handheld computers which have problems with web sites.
Nothing ever really dies does it?
An apology
Since moving the site to a new server Scribblings is not as easy to find your way around as it used to be. It used to depend on a script and a database on the server but is currently served as ‘flat html’.
I have some ideas about how to make it a bit easier but they depend on writing another script. I hope to get around to it ‘eventually’.
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