[gopher] 3GB more data for torrent
Hi folks,
Back between about 2002 and 2006, the Gopher server on quux.org served
3GB of mirrors of other sites. Changing hosting arrangements cramped my
disk space and resource availability, so these mirrors were removed
before my archival spider ran.
I'll include the README.txt from this below, but wanted to highlight a
couple of items of particular interest. This includes the FTP site from
boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/gopher, which was a large collection of Gopher
client and server software. Also included was
ftp.unicom.com/pub/gn-tools, the old GN server, and wiretap.area.com.
This last site was mirrorable via FTP, and included the UMN Gopherd .cap
and .Links files, so it can be served up via PyGopherd.
There are also some other bits of general interest, some of which were
available via Gopher and some via FTP only: etext.org, the OBI from
ftp.std.com, and a textfiles.com mirror.
Torrent is at:
http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/Quux.Org%20Gopher%20Mirror%20Collection%202006.torrent
Full content of README.txt:
This is a collection of mirrors maintained by gopher.quux.org. These
mirrors were taken offline in 2006 due to bandwidth constraints.
This collection prepared April 2010 by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
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mirrors.tar.bz2
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Compressed size: 1.6GB
Uncompressed size: 3.8GB
File count: 102736
The content includes:
boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher from the FTP site, including various historic Gopher
software packages for many operating systems
[ site no longer exists ]
etext.org
/pub from the etext.org FTP site, an early electronic book/magazine
collection.
[ site no longer exists but is in archive.org as a web site ]
fidonews collection, 1984-2002
Collection of FidoNet newsletters
ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/oracle
The Usernet/Internet Oracle archive, snapshot taken in 2002
[ site still up; mirror taken in 2002 ]
ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/sim
PDP-1, -7, -8, and -11 simulators collection
[ site no longer exists ]
ftp.eff.org/Misc/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector
EFF newsletter collection
ftp.std.com/pub/mbg
Files relating to PDP-10 and PDP-11
[ site is down ]
ftp.ucpel.tche.br/pub/msdos/emulator/coco
TRS-80 CoCo II emulator and collection of CoCo II software
[ site no longer exists ]
ftp.unicom.com/pub/gn-tools
The old GN gopher server. Last updated 1995.
[ site no longer exists ]
gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet
Files pertaining to the Usenet newsgroups
comp.sources.games, comp.sources.misc, comp.sources.reviewed,
comp.sources.sun, comp.sources.unix
[ site is up but this data is gone ]
if-archive: ftp.irarchive.org
Interactive Fiction archive snapshot
[ site is up ]
OBI: the Online Books Initiative
Another early etext site. From ftp.std.com.
[ site is up, but as a Web site only now ]
risks: the risk of technology digest
textfiles.com
Mirror of that site. Site is still up.
wiretap.area.com
An old Gopher site. The Gopher metadata is included in the mirror.
Various etexts, especially related to government.
A Web site now exists at that location, but Gopher is down.
wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/c/unix-c
Some old Unix-based utilities and programs.
[ site is down ]
www.espy.org
Joel Klecker's website. Joel Klecker was a Debian developer that
died in 2000 at the age of 21.
[ site is down ]
x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos
Includes DOS programs for various outdates compression formats
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usenet-a-news.tar.bz2
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Compressed size: 4MB
Uncompressed size: 51MB
File count: 9987
Usenet articles from around 1981, before the Great Renaming.
Not sure where I got this archive from.
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