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OK, who wants to put on a GopherCon 2015 next year, dedicated to actual Gopher[1][2][3][4]?

I mean, there is a precedent for this sort of thing.

http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/util/gopher/gophercon1.txt

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29

[2]: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/

[4]: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/

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From the first link:

Finally, the relative numeric success of Gopher over WWW was discussed (there are orders of magnitude more Gopher servers than WWW servers out there): Gopher seems to have won out primarily because of the ease of entry (it's much harder to put up a WWW server than a Gopher server), although another factor may be that a hierarchical presentation is more appropriate than hypertext for the broad-based audience of a CWIS.

When I started my CS degree we still used mostly Gopher, the WWW browsers started to appear on campus AIX, DG/UX terminals around one year later.

I was pretty disappointed when Mozilla dropped native Gopher support from Firefox.

There's still plugins for it though.

There can be overlap here with Gopher servers written in golang like https://code.google.com/p/gogopherd/.

I've been meaning to extend a Hakyll backend for Gopher sites, and then to set up a RPi gopher server and duplicating my site to it.

Or actual gophers for that matter.

cuervocon > gophercon

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