About the owner of this Gopher server
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Hello there. My name is Martin Kukac (the letter c is supposed to have
caron, with pronunciation similar to the English "ch" in "chocolate"),
I'm currently  38  and this text is being typed in Prague,  capital of
the Czech Republic, where I currently live with my wife and son.

As far as I can remember, I always was an IT guy. It started with a ZX
Spectrum  clone in the first half of the  nineties and never  stopped,
just the ZX  Spectrum was  replaced  with  several  PC-compatibles and
PowerMacintoshes since then. Well, to be honest, it wasn't  replaced -
I'm into retro-computing, so good old Speccy still has the place on my
desk as well as many other computers 

Even  though I do other stuff (geocaching, HAM and CB radio),  you can
expect retro-computing and  computing in general being  the main topic
of this gopherhole. You have just been warned.


About the server itself
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I remember the Gopher from the final days of its widespread use.  Even
back then (the Netscape 3 Gold era),  I preferred the clean and simple
Gopher way of accessing data.  At the time I had  a huge old Hungarian
286-based  desktop with  no Internet  connection.  Everything  I found
on gopher in our high school  computer lab could be stored to a floppy
disk and  studied at home in plain MS-DOS environment. You couldn't do
easily  the same thing with WWW/HTML stuff  and you certainly can't do
it now, when even simple web pages have the size of hard drive in that
286-clone.

Gopher is beautiful way to share  information with almost no overhead.
No matter if I read gopher on a  30-year-old, 68000-based machine with
1  MB  of  RAM  or my  quad-core  multi-gigahertz  and  multi-gigabyte
smartphone, gopher is always performing better. That's why I installed
a gopher daemon on my virtual server  in 2011  and created this little
gopher hole.

As it is currently  the only gopher server  on CZ domain,  it has both
English and Czech parts.  International visitors will probably be most
interested in my phlog aggregator  called  Bongusta!, which aggregates
news on more than  fifty  phlogs.  For  Czech  visitors  there is some
useful local stuff -  news and weather.  Feel free to leave me a short
note in guestbook, if you like it here!
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