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David Griffith

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Mar 15, 2012, 10:48:37 PM3/15/12
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[ From: davidmy...@acm.org (David Griffith) ]
[ Subject: IF Archive on a Gopher server ]
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There's a new mirror of the Interactive Fiction Archive. This one is
served by through Gopher. See gopher.feedle.net with a dedicated Gopher
client or using the Overbite Firefox plugin. Please let me know what
you think of it.

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David Griffith
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John W Kennedy

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Mar 16, 2012, 10:07:07 AM3/16/12
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On 2012-03-16 02:48:37 +0000, David Griffith said:

> [ This is a repost of the following article: ]
> [ From: davidmy...@acm.org (David Griffith) ]
> [ Subject: IF Archive on a Gopher server ]
> [ Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction ]
> [ Message-ID: <jju65u$d8i$1...@frotz.eternal-september.org> ]
>
> There's a new mirror of the Interactive Fiction Archive. This one is
> served by through Gopher. See gopher.feedle.net with a dedicated Gopher
> client or using the Overbite Firefox plugin. Please let me know what
> you think of it.

Mac users can also use Camino, an alternate version of Firefox for Mac,
which includes Gopher support.

--
John W Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

Jerome West

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Mar 17, 2012, 9:07:22 AM3/17/12
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On 16/03/2012 14:07, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 2012-03-16 02:48:37 +0000, David Griffith said:
>
>> [ This is a repost of the following article: ]
>> [ From: davidmy...@acm.org (David Griffith) ]
>> [ Subject: IF Archive on a Gopher server ]
>> [ Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction ]
>> [ Message-ID: <jju65u$d8i$1...@frotz.eternal-september.org> ]
>>
>> There's a new mirror of the Interactive Fiction Archive. This one is
>> served by through Gopher. See gopher.feedle.net with a dedicated Gopher
>> client or using the Overbite Firefox plugin. Please let me know what
>> you think of it.
>
> Mac users can also use Camino, an alternate version of Firefox for Mac,
> which includes Gopher support.

Ever since I first got on the internet, I wondered what the hell Gopher
was. Then there was the web, and I forgot all about it. Maybe now it's
time I found out.
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