jdd's List o' Links
A curated list of web sites of the old-school: mostly non-commercial and all hand-made, survivals of the Web As It Once Was. And sites that preserve the spirit of it.
The ten most recent additions are available in a handy RSS format!
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Where Have All the Gophers Gone?
Subtitled "Why the Web Beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mindshare", which pretty much explains what this essay is about. Also goes into some detail about the development and evolution of Gopher.
date added: 2024-10-26
tags: gopher history internet
Floodgap
Cameron Kaiser's "personal repository for information technology research, historical computing research, and open source software", among many other things. A unique and valuable resource!
date added: 2022-05-16
tags: computers retro gopher history biology art commodore
The Frugal Webserver
A web site running (intermittently) since 2006 on a 386SX-16 built from spare parts. Photos, radio history in Portland OR, gopher server, etc. [Update 2024-06-09: Although it's a little hard to say for sure due to the intermittent availability of this server even when it was still active, it's been down long enough that I fear this time it ain't coming back. But ... [Update 2024-12-02: Hey, I was wrong! It's back again!]]
date added: 2022-03-08
tags: radio gopher history oldserver