I received a nice email from Matto [0] last week, which I greatly appreciated. He came across my phlog visiting the gopher.viste.fr random gopher site list generator [1], which is a great distraction when you have some time to kill. Matto's own gopher site is full of interesting tutorials and commentary on life at the text console. Hear, hear for Old Debian! I came across Wirefull's gopher hole [2] where one can see "Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 'etch' sparc64". Nothing beats the simplicity and stability of old Debian, and it's perfect for running a gopher server. From Weinholt's gopher [3], a useful link on disabling Firefox's many and varied automated network requests [4]. I should add that Trisquel's Abrowser, which is a re-branded Firefox, already disables many of these. Mozz.us has a few IF games you can play online [5], including some classics from Infocom. [0]: gopher://box.matto.nl [1]: gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/ogup/rnd [2]: gopher://gopher.wirefull.org [3]: gopher://weinholt.se:70/0/rlog/2022-01-13-mozilla.txt [4]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections [5]: gopher://mozz.us:7006