Every one of us should run a gopher server. There are free python and php gopher servers that you can run on free and cheap web hosts. For beefier options get a cheap VPS.
There's also Gopher's younger brother, the Gemini protocol. There are already more than 400 active Gemini servers.
The Overbite Project
http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/
"Bringing gopherspace back to modern operating systems, browsers and mobile devices Return to the Gopher protocol's low bandwidth and high efficiency, right from your mobile phone or modern computer! Quickly connect to downloads, services and servers maintained across the global Gopherspace using the Overbite Project's free open source gopher client software."
"What's Gopher good for? Gopher isn't a "mini-Web": it's an efficient, low-impact way to collect and organize documents, files and services. Its hierarchical nature and menu-document model complement the Web and FTP, and it is faster to access and simpler to process."
Every one of us should run a gopher server. There are free python and php gopher servers that you can run on free and cheap web hosts. For beefier options get a cheap VPS.
There's also Gopher's younger brother, the Gemini protocol. There are already more than 400 active Gemini servers.
The Overbite Project
http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/
"Bringing gopherspace back to modern operating systems, browsers and mobile devices Return to the Gopher protocol's low bandwidth and high efficiency, right from your mobile phone or modern computer! Quickly connect to downloads, services and servers maintained across the global Gopherspace using the Overbite Project's free open source gopher client software."
"What's Gopher good for? Gopher isn't a "mini-Web": it's an efficient, low-impact way to collect and organize documents, files and services. Its hierarchical nature and menu-document model complement the Web and FTP, and it is faster to access and simpler to process."
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