RIP JUMPJET

I recently noticed that the website at http://jumpjet.info seems to 
be no more. Currently the domain does not resolve, and the last 
archived copy of the homepage at the Wayback Machine shows a domain 
parking page was being returned in June, so it doesn't look good.

In my opinion this website had the best index of Gopher client 
software around, in one of many interesting parts of its "Offbeat 
Internet" section. It also claimed to have been online, "in various 
incarnations" since 1992. I'm pretty sure it was where I first 
found a Gopher client to try out in Windows XP (besides Firefox, 
which still supported Gopher back then), with which I explored a 
few original Gopher servers which have also since gone offline. 
It's continued to be a helpful reference for Gopher, and also for 
exploring other obscure protocols, which it listed in unusual 
clarity. I actually discovered that it was down while looking for 
Gopher-Web proxies to see how they worked with GophHub 
(unfortunately none seem to play ball with it except Floodgap's 
one, and that deliberately blocks displaying HTML content).

This seems to be the last capture of the homepage by the Wayback 
Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20230406093104/http://www.jumpjet.info/

The Gopher section:
http://web.archive.org/web/20230117125557/http://jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/Gopher/archive.htm

Yet another dead bookmark. I sometimes feel like I browse the 
Wayback Machine as much as I browse the wider internet when 
researching certain topics or going through old bookmarks. I did 
want to build a combined bookmarking and website archiving system 
one day, but it would likely be a frustrating development process 
confounded by servers throttling requests and my internet dropping 
out mid-process. In fact I know that it would be like that, because 
that's what happens when I try archiving individual websites 
manually using Wget or HTtrack. It never goes right, and I'm lucky 
if I'm finished within an hour.

Anyway at least there's the Wayback Machine, with which we can all 
remember websites like JumpJet.

 - The Free Thinker