Oh.. you can (still) read TAZ newspaper in Netscape on IRIX over gopher protocol 👀

Timo Ollech

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looks like gopher is still around and more active than usenet just signed the guestbook on magical.fish

Bojan Landekić

@flexion Irix was where I learned Alias PowerAnimator v6.0 back in the '90s. A friend of the family was going on vacation for a few months and didn't want his expensive Indy workstation to sit unused so he lent it to me. I was madly impressed by Irix. It still looks like the best GUI design ever!

Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

@flexion how is this not dead? This is astonishing.

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..and someone's laundry schedule, on gopher. because.. why not.

Ozzelot :runbsd:

@flexion oh to be capable of scheduling laundry

AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺

Not only Gopher, but also Gemini! gemini://taz.de

Old and new awesomeness!

#gopher #gemini #smolweb

Ozzelot :runbsd:

@flexion (though i guess just in time is a type of scheduling)

LFA

@flexion Is still around and in good shape

Mastarmi

@andi @flexion das ist ja verrückt. Sehr cool

Matthias Kampmann

@bojanlandekic @flexion I still hear the crystal clear sounds when clicking on the toolchest or an icon on the desktop while sitting at an Octane in 2000, maintaining an art installation by Sommerer & Mignonneau during the exhibition „vision.ruhr“ in Dortmund. https://235media.de/2000/12/vision-ruhr/?lang=en Great experience.

Urlaub im Userspace

@flexion Wir sollten in Ergänzung zum Telnet-Feedbackkanal vielleicht auch mal über eine Gopher-Seite nachdenken, @eba 🥸

Santiago :arandela:

@flexion That is one gorgeous desktop, can you comment a bit more about the system specs and software? absolutely beautiful

Carlos Solís

@andi
@flexion Makes sense to provide both at once, since Gopher and Gemini use a very similar syntax

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@santiago The screenshots were taken on a SiliconGraphics Indigo2 Solid IMPACT 10000 with 195MHz MIPS processor and 384 MB RAM running IRIX 6.5.22.

Elmar Iachi

@flexion Auge @lalonsander @read_and_riot

MasterEmit

@flexion @santiago

Lackfabrikant (EVduckR)

Thanks for the information. This means I can use my VAXstation with VMS and mosaic as well

mirabilos

@flexion good to know! lynx also does gopher.

Not sure it I manage to start reading a daily newspaper, but.

mirabilos

@flexion @ozzelot that’s austrian… apprently they are a bit backwards. I just run laundry whenever I feel like it (and the previous laundry isn’t still in the dryer and thus blocking the single 3.5kW line we have).