Tag: gopher.

Goodbye, Gopher.

It’s 2023 now, and one of my themes for the year is simplification. I’ve let life get too chaotic, so I’m making some moves to reduce my cognitive load, one of which is reducing the amount of digital infrastructure I rely on and manage. So, it is with a heavy...

Enter The Gopherverse.

Anyone remember Gopher? It was an old alternative to the World Wide Web that was largely text-based (see: awesome). Over the last few years, computerists (computerers?) more adventurous than myself have been flocking back to Gopher in droves—relatively speaking. I think that most people can agree that the World Wide...