RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115711583068137949

Drop what you're doing and listen to @masinter Larry Masinter talk about computing history and lore. He tells first hand stories on the early web, Gopher, Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol, mailto:, and a whole lot more including Interlisp.

https://netstack.fm/#episode-17

@Jayhoffmann may be interested.

#retrocomputing #interlisp #web #gopher #ietf

What's your favourite client?
Your favourite server to run?
#smolweb #smolnet #SmallWeb #smallnet #geminiprotocol #gemini #GopherProtocol #gopher

So speaking of browser wars...

Is Gophie the best browser or are there other gopher browsers that are better?

HTML/Javascript was a mistake.

https://gophie.org/

#mozilla #browser #gopher #ai #firefox

Found a YouTube about #gopher and the guy there opened another rabbit hole #gemeni protocol
https://geminiprotocol.net/

Nice to see cool projects in this timeline

Found a YouTube about #gopher and the guy there opened another rabbit hole #gemeni protocol
https://geminiprotocol.net/

Nice to see cool projects in this timeline

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115711583068137949

Drop what you're doing and listen to @masinter Larry Masinter talk about computing history and lore. He tells first hand stories on the early web, Gopher, Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol, mailto:, and a whole lot more including Interlisp.

https://netstack.fm/#episode-17

@Jayhoffmann may be interested.

#retrocomputing #interlisp #web #gopher #ietf

#decemberAdventure day 9: back to #gopher

A number of years ago I setup my own search tool for the gopherspace. I've not re-done a full crawl since getting it working, and due to some design issues, it eventually stopped working reliably enough to keep running. Due to RSI issues, I have prioritized other projects in the intervening years, but have slowly made a list of notes and plans for fixing it. Today's adventure is the first part in implementing my plan and getting it back to a useable state.

I've rewritten the crawler. The new one is a lot less buggy than the original, and has a number of improvement including a correctly working filter (supporting robots.txt and a defined list of servers not to index), better discovery of servers from the gopher maps, tracking when servers were last scanned, request rate limiting, and facilities for avoiding recording duplicate entries.

My initial tests have been on my main gopher server (forthworks.com:70) and a number of my private ones. This totals 32k selectors across 3 servers. I'm going to start a broader scan of the public gopherspace soon, so will update once I get through the initial scan of a few servers.

My full logs are at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025

notice me

#bell #glenda #plan9 #9front #go #gopher #unix_surrealism #rabbit

#decemberAdventure day 9: back to #gopher

A number of years ago I setup my own search tool for the gopherspace. I've not re-done a full crawl since getting it working, and due to some design issues, it eventually stopped working reliably enough to keep running. Due to RSI issues, I have prioritized other projects in the intervening years, but have slowly made a list of notes and plans for fixing it. Today's adventure is the first part in implementing my plan and getting it back to a useable state.

I've rewritten the crawler. The new one is a lot less buggy than the original, and has a number of improvement including a correctly working filter (supporting robots.txt and a defined list of servers not to index), better discovery of servers from the gopher maps, tracking when servers were last scanned, request rate limiting, and facilities for avoiding recording duplicate entries.

My initial tests have been on my main gopher server (forthworks.com:70) and a number of my private ones. This totals 32k selectors across 3 servers. I'm going to start a broader scan of the public gopherspace soon, so will update once I get through the initial scan of a few servers.

My full logs are at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025

notice me

#bell #glenda #plan9 #9front #go #gopher #unix_surrealism #rabbit

What's your favourite client?
Your favourite server to run?
#smolweb #smolnet #SmallWeb #smallnet #geminiprotocol #gemini #GopherProtocol #gopher

Subject: Lightweight FOSS web browser

There aren't many realistic FOSS alternatives to the Firefox and Chromium families of web browsers. Most actively developed #FOSS browsers are forks or spoons of one or the other. The exceptions, such as Ladybird and WebKitGTK MiniBrowser, typically aren't far along in development [e.g. Ladybird] or are limited in scope [e.g. MiniBrowser].

However, I compiled and tested a lightweight #Qt6 #browser named #Dooble today and I'm pleased to report that it works well for general browsing. As one test, this post is being made using Dooble.

The primary limitation that I've noticed is that most videos won't play. In general, the browser is usable even on modern and/or high-JavaScript sites such as LinkedIn and Google News.

Dooble doesn't support uBlock Origin, but it does support domain-level blocklists in AdGuard format. Other features include tabs, cookie management, search suggestions, #Gopher support, custom search engines, CSS and JavaScript injection, low dependencies [aside from Qt6], and multiple security measures. The GitHub link for the browser is:

https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble.git

@itsfoss

Subject: Lightweight FOSS web browser

There aren't many realistic FOSS alternatives to the Firefox and Chromium families of web browsers. Most actively developed #FOSS browsers are forks or spoons of one or the other. The exceptions, such as Ladybird and WebKitGTK MiniBrowser, typically aren't far along in development [e.g. Ladybird] or are limited in scope [e.g. MiniBrowser].

However, I compiled and tested a lightweight #Qt6 #browser named #Dooble today and I'm pleased to report that it works well for general browsing. As one test, this post is being made using Dooble.

The primary limitation that I've noticed is that most videos won't play. In general, the browser is usable even on modern and/or high-JavaScript sites such as LinkedIn and Google News.

Dooble doesn't support uBlock Origin, but it does support domain-level blocklists in AdGuard format. Other features include tabs, cookie management, search suggestions, #Gopher support, custom search engines, CSS and JavaScript injection, low dependencies [aside from Qt6], and multiple security measures. The GitHub link for the browser is:

https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble.git

@itsfoss

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tootik v0.19.9
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik
tootik is a federated nanoblogging service for the small internet.
tootik allows people to participate in the fediverse using their Gemini, Gopher or Finger client of choice and makes the fediverse lighter, more private and more accessible. tootik's interface strips content to bare essentials (like text and links), puts the users in control of the content they see and tries to "slow down" the fediverse to make it more compatible with the slower pace of the small internet.
It's a single executable that handles both the federation (using ActivityPub) and the frontend (using Gemini) aspects, while sqlite takes care of persistency. It should be lightweight and efficient enough to host a small community even on a cheap server, and hopefully, be easy to hack on.
tootik implements only a small subset of ActivityPub, and probably doesn't really conform to the spec.
Changelog:
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik/releases/tag/v0.19.9
#Gemini #Gopher #Guppy #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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/ /_____ ____ / /_(_) /__
/ **/ ** \/ ** \/ **/ / //_/
/ /_/ /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / ,<
\__/\____/\____/\__/_/_/|_|
tootik v0.19.9
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik
tootik is a federated nanoblogging service for the small internet.
tootik allows people to participate in the fediverse using their Gemini, Gopher or Finger client of choice and makes the fediverse lighter, more private and more accessible. tootik's interface strips content to bare essentials (like text and links), puts the users in control of the content they see and tries to "slow down" the fediverse to make it more compatible with the slower pace of the small internet.
It's a single executable that handles both the federation (using ActivityPub) and the frontend (using Gemini) aspects, while sqlite takes care of persistency. It should be lightweight and efficient enough to host a small community even on a cheap server, and hopefully, be easy to hack on.
tootik implements only a small subset of ActivityPub, and probably doesn't really conform to the spec.
Changelog:
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik/releases/tag/v0.19.9
#Gemini #Gopher #Guppy #Fediverse #ActivityPub

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115501880824995582

With Mozilla becoming further and further enshittified, and the only alternative browsers being Chrome/Chromium based.... and finding out how difficult it is to really make a modern web browser...

...it makes me really want to embrace simpler and streamlined internet protocols. I'm halfway wanting to just dive into "gopher" for Eris' sake.

#mozilla #chrome #web #gopher #gopherProtocol

@tinker Gopher never died. Also Elinks still works for web stuff.

#gopher #debloat

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115501880824995582

With Mozilla becoming further and further enshittified, and the only alternative browsers being Chrome/Chromium based.... and finding out how difficult it is to really make a modern web browser...

...it makes me really want to embrace simpler and streamlined internet protocols. I'm halfway wanting to just dive into "gopher" for Eris' sake.

#mozilla #chrome #web #gopher #gopherProtocol

Talked to some colleagues at work today about the #gopher protocol. So lovely to see the expression on their face being like: #WAT?