Welcome to my gopherhole

august 20th, 2019

This is the first post on my new phlog. Some days ago I created my new

public gopher server. The installation of Gophernicus on my new virtual

server went pretty smooth.

I have to admit that I haven't used gopher for quite a while. The first

time I remember was me looking for drivers for a graphics card on my

OS/2 box back in 1995. Unfornunately, I can't remember the name of the

gopher client, but I recall that one of the servers belonged to

IBM. Those were the days!

Fast forward almost 25 years. The web has become a place of total

surveillance. After browsing gopher pages and reading all the amusing

phlogs for some days, I decided that it's about time for some

javascript, css and ad-tracking detox, so I created this little

gopherhole. I hope that I will find the time to make some old content

available here as well.

I've always been attracted to alternative technologies, and Gopher fits

perfectly! Most of my work days, I extensivly use command line

tools. Not sure about my workflow for Gopher yet, so I'm playing around

with some of the available tools. 'burrow' seems quite nice, though it

might need some hacking to suit my needs.

Anyway, if you have any comments, drop me a line at "jan [at]

mecinus.com".

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