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gopher-plus

Gopher+ protocol specification

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Gopher+ protocol specification

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Observed mentions: 2021-02-25 15:46:27 UTC to 2024-11-15 09:06:20 UTC.

0122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I think it is a bit of a chicken and an egg problem. There are a few Gopher+ servers out there (pygopherd gas Gopher+ support for example, which is reasonably widely used), and the Gopher+ protocol is pretty flexible and designed with the metaverse in mind originally (see GopherVR from the original authors). It is a shame that a lot of current Gopher users seem to be strongly against anything apart from standard Gopher, when the original authors of the protocol had much grander ideas for interactivity & visual interfaces. Sigh. For anyone interested, the Gopher+ protocol doc never made it to a proper RFC, but is on github in a hyper-linked format to make it easier to read: https://github.com/gopher-protocol/gopher-plus/blob/main/gop... https://github.com/gopher-protocol/gopher-plus/blob/main/gop... specifically mentions 3D representation
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s of Gopherspace. They also provide provision for a "general purpose" scripting language - I think Javascript would fit the bill - there and in section 2.8
In Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini
Don't forget Gopher! Orignal: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436 Gopher+: https://github.com/gopher-protocol/gopher-plus I feel like there is a lot of potential to "rejuvenate" Gopher somewhat in today's internet. No javascript, no cookies, no ads, no auto-play videos etc. There are some nice new modern GUIs like https://gophie.org that are cross platform and modern. Fun fact: Redis (yes - that Redis) just added Gopher protocol support (https://redis.io/topics/gopher)
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