2016 wk.08: hello gopher

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Yesterday I read [a tweet by Charles Stross][tweet]:

The MetaFilter gopher server is back after 15 years of downtime!!! gopher://gopher.metafilter.com

But I did remember that Gopher support had been dropped in Firefox 4.0 so I looked for a client. I knew that [sdfeu][] actively supports Gopher so I headed there to do a quick check.

And I should not have got into that rodent hole for in three minutes I had already found an [Emacs mode to browse Gopher][gopher.el].

With that solved it was simply a matter of time having [my site served by Gopher][itorres.net:70] as well. And guess what, it does not look so different from the HTML rendering.

[mu4e]: 2016/02/18/mu4e/ [tweet]: https://twitter.com/cstross/status/703330852844007425 [sdfeu]: https://sdfeu.org/w/faq:gopher [gopher.el]: https://github.com/ardekantur/gopher.el [itorres.net:70]: http://itorres.net:70/notes/

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