Welcome to our gopher server. This site is physically hosted in Minnesota, the birthplace of gopher, and by a University of Minnesota graduate, no less! I am glad to carry on this Minnesota tradition, even if the U of Minn no longer does.

This is a person gopher hole, and needless to say, not a commercial venture.
It is a labor of love.  My goal is to makes this hole an interesting place for you to visit regularly.


How we got here
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Magical.fish began in 2018 as static gophermap that I used to bookmark my favorite holes. It is still my personal start page to all the stuff I like to do in gopherspace.

After spending months reading phlogs and digging around other gopher holes, I found Flask Gopher and became motivated to try building an interactive site. I also wanted to learn about setting up a Tor onion service and have a good reason to mess around with Python.

How we got our name
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I wish I had a better story about why this site is called Magical.fish and not something more gopherish.  It happened to be a domain I already had registered for a few years for a different project.  I also think its memorable and lighthearted.  So for now, it's magical fish. Maybe someday it can be magical.gopher.
Note:  The site can now be accessed through the domain Magical.Gopher if you use OpenNic.org name servers. Get a free .gopher domain for your hole through OpenNic.

If you like this hole, please tell others about it and link to it. I intend to leave it up indefinitely.

About the Sysop
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I am a life long computer nerd.  I still have my Osborne I computer from 1981. I have worked in software and tech all of my life.  I was a r/cpm operator in the 80's, a CompuServe user, an early AOL user (when it was a BBs), ran popular Opus Fido BBS's in Minneapolis & Chicago, messed a little with Gopher and I helped to make the world wide web the disaster it is today.

Sending you good vibrations from Minnesota....

Skol!  Perge! and Ski-u-Mah!1