Re: [gopher] There is/was a GopherCon?
Okay, so after some digging I found a Gopher menu with some interesting
past GopherCon documents that some of you might be interested in. It
really shows where Gopher was heading at one point, and some
interesting ideas Gopher developers at the time had:
gopher://gopherspace.de/1/menu/WIKI/GopherCon/
I did find this very interesting read that might help some of you with
the WWW/Gopher server hybrid development:
gopher://gopherspace.de/0/menu/WIKI/GopherCon/94/APP12=Running_WWW_on_top_of_Gopher.txt
Basically, the custom httpd server uses the same document root as the
gopher server, but uses HTML files which are hidden to gopher to
stylize the same Gopher content in the HTTP version of their site.
Very interesting stuff.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:05:24 -0700
Kevin Veroneau <kevin@veroneau.net> wrote:
> Just noticed that a GopherCon actually was a thing, at least in 1993.
> Did anyone from this list attend? What type of talks were there?
> Anything you can recall that really sparked your attention?
>
> Is there also an archive of GopherCon topics and talks in Gopherspace?
> Here's a document that I found, but can no longer access:
> gopher://it.is.rice.edu:70/00/TripReports/IS/gophercon-93
>
> Seems like we need a Wayback Machine for Gopherspace.
>
> Something that I also noticed from this URL is that the Gopher type is
> in double digits, whereas most Gopher types I see these days are only
> in single digits. Was there plans before to make Gopher type a double
> digit?
>
> Here's a HTTP version of the same document, if your curious for a read:
> http://prentissriddle.com/trips/gophercon1993.html
>
> I'd say, we should contact the author of this website and ask if we can
> archive this document in Gopherspace.
>
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