Gopher Novice - Part VI.
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Cont. [Gopher Novice - Part V]

Finally I got some articles about how to use Gophersphere. I've read
[Diving into the Internet from 1994] and concerns of worse net from
that times:

 ``
  Unfortunately, that's what Gopherspace is today.  Anybody can  install
  and advertise a Gopher.


Then [Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet from 1994]:

 ``
  8.8.  WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
  As the Internet grows ever more popular, its resources come under
  more of a strain.  If you try to use gopher in the middle of the day,
  at least on the East Coast of the U.S., you'll sometimes notice that
  it takes a very long time for particular menus or database searches
  to come up.


And

 ``
  8.9 FYI
  David Riggins maintains a list of gophers by type and category. You
  can find the most recent one at the ftp site ftp.einet.net,
  in the pub directory.  Look for a file with a name like
  "gopher-jewels.txt." Alternately, you can get on a mailing list to
  get the latest version sent


I started connecting information from many places. I've spotted an
archive of many articles about Gophersphere. There are informations
from every point of Gopher history - [Vogue Growth Era, Mass Defection
Era and Stagnancy Era].

When I've been reading about [The WELL Gopher] I can easily navigate to
[The WELL's GopherSpace] at Gopher Wayback Machine.

Next I've read about [Gopher Jewels], which I've seen at second guide,
and, despite there are no information at Gopher Wayback Machine, I can
obtain its WWW's version at [Gopher Jewels at Web Archive].

I've found also, missed earlier, [Funny Bone 1997-2001] zine.

Step by step I try to imagine what was the Gophersphere like. Just take
a look at Gopher Jewels and a wealth of structured data. It seems that
it was easier to get the scientific information than today. Look at the
[The WELL - Bruce Sterling] with many content of Shismatrix author. There
are also many transcripts and so on. Interesting one is ["Free as Air,
Free As Water, Free As Knowledge"].

I look at it as some forgotten, for two decades, wisdom. We can read
[Diving into the Internet from 1994]:

 ``
  8. When you take information from the Internet, remember that you
  owe a debt to those who made it available. Repay your debt by making
  your own contribution. Ask your local Gopher master; he or she will
  probably be happy to accept a donation of time to help organize,
  update, index, and improve the system.


What is interesting, and maybe a bit funny, that more content I'm
consuming in Gopher-style, the more I like it. It's true that content
provided in one way is easier to process. Content is on the first
place, not a fancy project of modern websites which are only content
providers. I realised that I look to much at the appearance of the
webpages.


~ [Gopher Novice - Part V]:
  gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/szczezuja/novice/2021-08-26-Gopher-novice-part-v.txt

~ [Vogue Growth Era, Mass Defection Era and Stagnancy Era]:
  gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/1/gopher

~ [The WELL Gopher]:
  gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/The_WELL_Gopher.txt

~ [Gopher Jewels]:
  gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Gopher_Jewels_Tour.txt

~ [Gopher Jewels at Web Archive]:
  https://web.archive.org/web/19980212210352/http:/galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html

~ [The WELL's GopherSpace]:
  gopher://mozz.us:70/1/wayback/2007/gopher.well.com/70

~ [Diving into the Internet from 1994]:
  gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Internet_Diving.txt

~ [Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet from 1994]:
  gopher://mozz.us:70/0/wayback/2007/net1.hkbu.edu.hk/70/0/deptmenu/geogdept/document/bigdummy/ch08.txt

~ [Funny Bone 1997-2001]:
  gopher://mozz.us:70/1/funnybone

~ [The WELL - Bruce Sterling]:
  gopher://mozz.us:70/1/wayback/2007/gopher.well.com/70/1/Publications/authors/Sterling

~ ["Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge"]:
  gopher://mozz.us:70/0/wayback/2007/gopher.well.sf.ca.us/70/0/Publications/authors/Sterling/freeknow.up

~ [Diving into the Internet from 1994]:
  gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Internet_Diving.txt

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