This gopher space is dedicated to forgotten non-commercial Internet
services, such as Gopher, Archie, WAIS, online library catalogs
accessed via telnet, etc., along with some underground activities. 
Most information here is currently in Russian but many different 
languages are planned.

The first version of this server was running Bucktooth on a Windows
machine under Cygwin at my former work. It was also available via
gophermail (gopher@mail.rp.spb.su).  Local searches were possible with
Veronica. Since July 2005 I got fired from there and moved the server
to SDF. Some functionality (e.g. local search) has been lost under UMN
Gopherd. 

I do not consider this gopher just as a monument to the past of the
Internet or some historical archive. Moreover, I try as much as
possible to make it up-to-date and useful - not only for computer
developers and hackers like many modern gopher resources but for all
the people who aren't satisfied with nature of modern World
Wide Web.

I'm planning to install and run:

- a WAIS server (to make full-text searches)
  (now WAIS search is available via HTTP at
  http://rp.freeshell.org/wais/waisq.cgi)
- a CSO nameserver 
- Jughead (to search gopher)
- a Dict server
- an archie server would also be great
- telnet with access to Stauropygial records catalogue,
Cherry Hopkins Publishers catalogue etc.

Currently I have this server hosted on a VDS.

To get in touch please email to rp at freeshell.org 

Thank anyone who uses gopher!

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