Benefits? Light weight, low data, text based, no JS shit - why isn't Gopher more known? It is reminiscent of old days of more pure html based sites on usenet and older internet
"The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. The Gopher protocol was strongly oriented towards a menu-document design and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately HTTP became the dominant protocol. The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.
The protocol was invented by a team led by Mark P. McCahill at the University of Minnesota. It offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its text menu interface is well-suited to computing environments that rely heavily on remote text-oriented computer terminals, which were still common at the time of its creation in 1991, and the simplicity of its protocol facilitated a wide variety of client implementations. More recent Gopher revisions and graphical clients added support for multimedia. Gopher was preferred by many network administrators for using fewer network resources than Web services.
Gopher's hierarchical structure provided a platform for the first large-scale electronic library connections. Gopher has been described by some enthusiasts as "faster and more efficient and so much more organised" than today's Web services. The Gopher protocol is still in use by enthusiasts, and although it has been almost entirely supplanted by the Web, a small population of actively maintained servers remains." Link: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0Gopher%20%28protocol%29
Only one I've seen is this: gopher://gopher.su/1/board
And I'm still looking for Orbquest!
Parker Kelly
old oldfag here. There was no point to gopher other than working within the limitations of serial terminals as found in library systems. Compare it to lynx + web with a page designed for it, why would you choose gopher today?
Thomas Morgan
Go fuck yourself.
Parker Mitchell
Fair point, I suppose that would be just as good. Shame not enough design those sort of html pages too
Ethan Sanchez
Damnit. I cannot get overbite and requestpolicy play nice. The only way to view gopher pages properly is to turn off requestpolicy entirely
Jackson Long
Because the normal web is going to shit. Because it forces a consistent paradigm. Because the implementation is much more simple, which has ramifications for stability and security. Because it's fun.
Easton Bennett
Hmmm, had no problems myself with overbite + NoScript. Maybe until after you're done browing disable it and/or temporily get NoScript?
Hudson White
I've messed around with it a bit, it seems pretty comfy but I couldn't find much using it like I can with the normal web. Will have to check it out some more.
Hunter Russell
Great argument.
Joseph Harris
I made some inane shitpost on it and never went back.
Easton Cooper
I guess you use Firefox, so I recommend you creating another profile: firefox -ProfileManager Then, you start a new session with: firefox -P newprofile -no-remote
I have two Seamonkey profiles, one with all the security add-ons like noscript and request policy and another one without them (actually, just Overbite), so I don't have to disable and restart stuff all the time.
Michael Campbell
Hey, piss off you bloody web fag!
Jonathan Baker
Yeah. I have several profiles already. I just hate to use them. I can get most things to work with my main profile.
Kayden Allen
$ gopher
Jordan Reed
Overbite doesn't work with e10s, you can spawn a non-e10s window for gopher stuff via vile -> New Non-e10s Window and use overbite/gopher URIs in that window without restricting the whole profile to non-e10s.
Lucas Perry
wut?
Brayden Edwards
I meant "File".
Jordan Martinez
I googled it. I'm still using 47.0.1 dev edition with e10s disabled (that's the default.) I haven't upgraded yet because My computer is dirty and it overheats when I try to compile the update. Bought a can of air today to do it with.
I guess it doesn't matter though, since I'm not using e10s anyway. I'll just make a profile specifically for gopher