pre.vue.148 : The death of WELLgopher sort of
Gail Williams
Wed 12 Mar 08 14:29

    
The gopher is dead, long live the gopher!

Last night, in our continuing effor to modernize our technical 
infrastructure without tossing the baby with the older bathwater,  
we sort of killed off WELLgopher.  
 
Gopher.well.com was one of the oldest continuously operating gophers 
on the net.  It was frozen in time, with a nice set of articles
WELL members pulled together in the early 90s.  They sat there, with 
outdated contact info and all, like old magazines in a library.    

This week we reached a point where it was no longer reasonable to try to
support that technology as we virtualized the www.well.com box,
and all that lived there.  There are times when simplification is a 
primary goal, and this battle to adapt dozens of old apps from the Solaris 
environment run in a verson of Linux on a VM made simplicity a virtue.

So gopher is gone.  Fortunately, a member of The WELL stepped up to 
HTMLize the contents of the gopher, so we can continue to display the 
content, though it is now via http.  I am not sure if he wants public 
credit for his task, so I'll let him make that choice at some point. 

But THANK YOU.   

It's not via gopher, but the WELLgopher content lives on here:

http://www.well.com/gopher/