Gopher Archaeology
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LFA | 2025-11-14 | #gopher
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Today I added to this Gopher hole a new section called "Gopher
Archaeology". You can find it here
gopher://lucio.albenga.es:70/1/lfa/files/gopher

In this section I'm adding things I find during my Gopher journey. I
added the Gopher RFC 1436, the Gopher+ spec and the GopherII draft,
all of them I found when I decided to make my own gopher server
software: Goophy. I also added "the gopher://manifesto" (found at
quux.org), an image of a gopher article in a magazine (my very first
piece of gopher memorabilia), and a trascription I made of a press
article about Gopher at the MinnPost.

The last thing I found is the "2007 Gopherspace Mirror"[1] uploaded
to the Internet Archive by John Goerzen[2]. I found this by reading
old entries at The Wandering Geek's phlog[3]. This file has among
other things a video interview of Mark McCahill & Farhad Anklesaria,
about Gopher and I uploaded it to this section in mp4 (other formats
are available at the Internet Archive).

I hope to find more interesting things to add in the near future.
Currently I'm exploring the mailing list archives. One never knows
where the next interesting piece of information could be :-)

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[1] https://archive.org/details/2007-gopher-mirror

[2] https://www.complete.org/

[3] gopher://gopher.unixlore.net/1/glog