15 Pages Tagged “Gopher”
Reviews
- DeBurrow ★★⯪☆☆ A really basic Gopher client for Android. Supports bookmarks and history, but not much else, and has some usability issues.
- DiggieDog ★★⯪☆☆ Another basic gopher client for Android, with key functions (bookmarks and downloads), but different usability quirks from DeBurrow. The only Gopher app I can still find in the Play Store.
- Gopher (UMN Terminal Client) ★★★★☆ Debian still ships the original terminal-based Gopher client, updated occasionally for compatibility. It’s really user-friendly and thorough.
- Gopher Apps on Android I did find several Gopher clients for Android! But they’re all incomplete, awkward, or rapidly losing compatibility. So I’ve gone back to Lagrange, which handles Gopher in a Gemini client better than Netscape ever did in a web browser.
- Gophercle ★★☆☆☆ Extremely minimalist Gopher app for Android with a retro feel to it, but missing some key features like being able to link out to the web and back from other apps. No longer available except in F-Droid’s archives.
- Kristall ★★★★☆ Cross-platform desktop browser for the small internet, including Gemini, Gopher and Finger. A little faster than Lagrange, but fewer features and hasn’t been updated in a while.
- Lagrange ★★★★★ Lagrange quickly became my favorite Gemini client on the desktop with its clean and convenient UI, stability and speed across platforms. Also supports Gopher, Finger, Nex, and other small-internet protocols, and the mobile version works well too.
- Overbite Gopher Clients ★★☆☆☆ A project to bring gopher to modern devices, which unfortunately seems to have been passed by again.
- Pocket Gopher (Android) ★★⯪☆☆ Even simpler than DiggieDog or DeBurrow, with a more usable interface, but hard to find and no longer installs on modern Android.
Tech Tips
- Compiling Classic UMN Gopher on Modern Linux Debian still ships with the original terminal Gopher client. It doesn’t compile out of the box on other distros, but so far I’ve figured out how to build it on Fedora and Arch with a CFLAGS change.
- Running Gophernicus on Alpine Linux I’m experimenting with Gopher again. The Gophernicus server works well on Alpine, but it takes a little extra work to get the prerequisites right.
Other
- KVibber.com: Colophon My current tech stacks for building and hosting this site (and its smaller-net Gemini and Gopher counterparts).
Blog Posts
- Why Gemini?
One of the recurring questions when people familiar with HTML discover Gemini is: Why? Why not just write really simple HTML? I think it makes the most sense to look at it in terms of the Gopher revival it came out of.
- Rediscovering Gopher
I mostly missed Gopher’s heyday (such as it was), but after getting into Gemini, a couple of recent blog posts relating to the Gopher revival got me interested in digging into it again.
- Critical Infrastructure
Sign on a pillar next to a cafe, proclaiming “Internet WWW Access.” I also found (a) gopher nearby.