Gopher-based services

[jeo...@invalid.invalid]

Aside from the Veronica search and NOAA weather tools on floodgap.com
I find regular use for Gopherpedia (gopher://gopherpedia.com/7/lookup)
and Gopherddit (gopher://gopherddit.com/).

Would love to learn of other Gopher-based services.

[rek2 hispagatos]

Thanks for the link, and yes please send more gpher interesting places.


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[Marco Moock]

Am 26.10.2023 um 20:22:48 Uhr schrieb jeo...@invalid.invalid:

> Would love to learn of other Gopher-based services.

Port70.de offers some gateways to read newspapers and weather
information.
Reading reddit is also possible.

[lbf]

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[Computer Nerd Kev]

There's a whole lot here (some seem broken though):
gopher://magical.fish

I had some fun with the Javascript (and registration) free gateway
to one of these new chatbot things here, but it seems to be broken
now:
gopher://gopher.flatline.ltd

The science paper search seems to hang now too, oh well. At least
Gopherpedia seems to have lasted the test of time because I use
that too.

No wait, it all depends on your client. It fails with the UMN
Gopher client, but the OpenAI interface works in Gopherus (not the
research paper search though):

"Query: what services are available on the Gopher protocol?

Response:


The Gopher protocol was a distributed document search and retrieval system that
was popular in the early days of the internet. It allowed users
to access a variety of services, including:

- Text-based search and retrieval of documents
- File transfer
- Remote login
- Newsgroups
- Gopher menus
- Gopher maps
- Gopher tunnels
- Gopher search engines
- Gopher-based chat rooms
- Gopher-based games
- Gopher

Query: what new Gopher services are available today?

Response:


Some of the new Gopher services available today include:

- Gopher-based search engines
- Gopher-based file sharing
- Gopher-based chat rooms
- Gopher-based forums
- Gopher-based newsgroups
- Gopher-based web hosting
- Gopher-based email services
- Gopher-based blogging platforms
- Gopher-based social networks
- Gopher-based online stores
"

So your typical load of unhelpful nonsense from that then.
Interesting that it insists twice that newsgroups are on Gopher.

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[Daniel]

Welcome to the NG. I mostly just read messages and not post but here
goes a few that i use. There are more but you get the idea:

gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/ - dozens of solitaire games to play, fun
gopher://home.quix.us/1/audio/otradio - list of old time radio programs
gopher://khzae.net/7/movies/postalcode - Get movie theater listings
gopher://raymii.org/1 Coder who has a good phlog. Used to host news.
gopher://telefisk.org/1/amiga - list of amiga and hardware guides
gopher://bitreich.org - bitreich.org
gopher://gopher.petergarner.net/1 - rpi4 gopher
gopher://gopher.metafilter.com/ - metafilter

That's good for now. Happy gopher hunting.

Daniel

[Ben Collver]

On 2023-10-26, jeo...@invalid.invalid <jeo...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

I put up a few:

Dictionary gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict/
Directions gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dir/
GameFAQs gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/gamefaqs/
Recipes gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/recipes/

I have ideas for more, but haven't gotten around to it.

-Ben

[Visiblink]

I mirror a couple of news sites on gopher:

CBC Lite: gopher://gopher.visiblink.ca/1/cbc
LXer Linux News: gopher://gopher.visiblink.ca/1/LXer/

[rdh]

On 10/31/23 11:27, Ben Collver wrote:
> I put up a few:
>
> Dictionary gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict/
> Directions gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dir/
> GameFAQs gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/gamefaqs/
> Recipes gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/recipes/
>
> I have ideas for more, but haven't gotten around to it.
>
> -Ben

Hey Ben,

I was going to post your recipes db. But since you already did that, let
me just say thanks for putting it together, it's been useful to me!

[Ben Collver]

On 2023-11-03, rdh <r...@tilde.institute> wrote:
> Hey Ben,
>
> I was going to post your recipes db. But since you already did that, let
> me just say thanks for putting it together, it's been useful to me!

You are welcome! Glad you've found it useful

[Bozo User]

On 2023-10-27, rek2 hispagatos <re...@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
> On 2023-10-26, jeo...@invalid.invalid <jeo...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Aside from the Veronica search and NOAA weather tools on floodgap.com
>> I find regular use for Gopherpedia (gopher://gopherpedia.com/7/lookup)
>> and Gopherddit (gopher://gopherddit.com/).
>>
>> Would love to learn of other Gopher-based services.
>
> Thanks for the link, and yes please send more gpher interesting places.
>
>
> Happy Hacking
> ReK2

gopher://magical.fish

gopher://mozz.us

gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn

gopher://hngopher.com

[Bozo User]

On 2023-10-26, jeo...@invalid.invalid <jeo...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Huge service list:

[Jason McBrayer]

jeo...@invalid.invalid writes:

> Would love to learn of other Gopher-based services.

If you'd like to read Gemini pages, but prefer to use a Gopher client or
are using a system that doesn't support TLS or have any Gemini clients,
try cosmarmot.space, a Gopher to Gemini gateway.

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[18echo]

thank you for the gopherddit link

[IanJ]

jeo...@invalid.invalid wrote:
> Would love to learn of other Gopher-based services.

I created a gopher search engine: gopher://gopher.icu/1/quarry

There are several services listed in addition to the search
functionality:

* Gutenberg book search
* Podcast search
* Wikipedia search (gopherpedia)
* Youtube search
* Veronica II search
* Recipe search
* Directions search (google maps)

The first two are my own work, the others I have added for
convenience.

I also made a vote/polling system: gopher://gopher.icu/1/poll

Enjoy!

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gopher://gopher.icu

[rek2 hispagatos]

Thanks so much to everyone,
is there a wiki or someplace that we can keep all this gopher links?
will be nice to have them all together.

[Geeknix]

On 2023-11-09, rek2 hispagatos <re...@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
> On 2023-11-08, IanJ <SPAMian_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> jeo...@invalid.invalid wrote:
>>> Would love to learn of other Gopher-based services.
>>
>> I created a gopher search engine: gopher://gopher.icu/1/quarry
>>
>> There are several services listed in addition to the search
>> functionality:
>>
>> * Gutenberg book search
>> * Podcast search
>> * Wikipedia search (gopherpedia)
>> * Youtube search
>> * Veronica II search
>> * Recipe search
>> * Directions search (google maps)
>>
>> The first two are my own work, the others I have added for
>> convenience.
>>
>> I also made a vote/polling system: gopher://gopher.icu/1/poll
>

> Thanks so much to everyone,
> is there a wiki or someplace that we can keep all this gopher links?
> will be nice to have them all together.

This gives me Yahoo Directory vibes. When Yahoo tried to list all
websites in categories and indexes. We see what happened to Yahoo, a
search engine approach might scale better.

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[Computer Nerd Kev]

Geeknix <use...@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote:
> On 2023-11-09, rek2 hispagatos <re...@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
>> Thanks so much to everyone,
>> is there a wiki or someplace that we can keep all this gopher links?
>> will be nice to have them all together.
>
> This gives me Yahoo Directory vibes. When Yahoo tried to list all
> websites in categories and indexes. We see what happened to Yahoo, a
> search engine approach might scale better.

I used to find DMOZ (now curlie.org) much more helpful than web
searches for this sort of thing. Unfortunately many categories
became unmaintained and thus increasingly incomplete, although I
see that the Gopher section has been touched this year:

https://curlie.org/Computers/Internet/Protocols/Gopher/

[Computer Nerd Kev]

rek2 hispagatos <re...@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
> is there a wiki or someplace that we can keep all this gopher links?
> will be nice to have them all together.

In fact there's Phiki, a Wiki on Gopher. Nobody seems to use it
though.

gopher://khzae.net/1/phiki

[rek2 hispagatos]

On 2023-11-10, Computer Nerd Kev <n...@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> rek2 hispagatos <re...@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
>> is there a wiki or someplace that we can keep all this gopher links?
>> will be nice to have them all together.
>
> In fact there's Phiki, a Wiki on Gopher. Nobody seems to use it
> though.
>
> gopher://khzae.net/1/phiki
>

This looks very interesting.

[IanJ]

Computer Nerd Kev <n...@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>

> I used to find DMOZ (now curlie.org) much more helpful than web
> searches for this sort of thing. Unfortunately many categories
> became unmaintained and thus increasingly incomplete, although I
> see that the Gopher section has been touched this year:
>
> https://curlie.org/Computers/Internet/Protocols/Gopher/
>

I believe gopher lawn is an attempt at a community managed collection of
links much like DMOZ was for the web: gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn

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gopher://gopher.icu

[Nuno Silva]

Does Curlie by any chance have an option to use the DMOZ theme? Or any
option to switch to a more usable theme based on cookies or a GET
parameter?

I've kind of seen it as less usable than DMOZ because of their choices
in the appearance, but maybe I should try to use it with a "text-mode"
browser on a terminal emulator.

I could also craft some userContent.css hacks for this in the
Gecko-based GUI browser. I've just noticed Curlie is setting foreground
colors but background remains unset, which for me is resulting in some
gray (one of their text colors) on gray (the default background I picked
in the browser). For people who prefer light text on dark background, it
might result in very unreadable or even invisible text (as Curlie also
uses black for text).

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[Geeknix]

Thanks for the memories! Have long forgot about DMOZ :-)

Checking out curlie looks interesting....

[Robert Cunnings]

I have NOAA space weather reports and forecasts available here:

gopher://whitemesa.net/

These are useful for ham radio operators and shortwave listeners
to estimate the impact of solar activity on HF radio propagation.

[cr0c0d1le]

Thanks!

[rek2 hispagatos]

This is great thank you,
do you know of any Satellite and ham radio amateur newsgroups?


Happy Hacking
ReK2

[Computer Nerd Kev]

rek2 hispagatos <re...@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
> On 2023-12-21, Robert Cunnings <nw...@whitemesa.com> wrote:
>> I have NOAA space weather reports and forecasts available here:
>>
>> gopher://whitemesa.net/
>>
>> These are useful for ham radio operators and shortwave listeners
>> to estimate the impact of solar activity on HF radio propagation.
>
> This is great thank you,
> do you know of any Satellite and ham radio amateur newsgroups?

rec.radio.* should be a good starting point. A few of those
newsgroups actually get NOAA reports posted there too.

[rek2 hispagatos]

On 2023-12-22, Computer Nerd Kev <n...@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> rek2 hispagatos <re...@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2023-12-21, Robert Cunnings <nw...@whitemesa.com> wrote:
>>> I have NOAA space weather reports and forecasts available here:
>>>
>>> gopher://whitemesa.net/
>>>
>>> These are useful for ham radio operators and shortwave listeners
>>> to estimate the impact of solar activity on HF radio propagation.
>>
>> This is great thank you,
>> do you know of any Satellite and ham radio amateur newsgroups?
>
> rec.radio.* should be a good starting point. A few of those
> newsgroups actually get NOAA reports posted there too.
>

Thank you!