Gopherpedia: The Gopher Interface to Wikipedia

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60 points·vmorgulis··10 comments

GitHub: https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000

From a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280749

Is there a way to access the other language versions of wikipedia with it? I would like to give my children access to the dutch or simple english wikipedia versions.

Looks like it only supports the english wikipedia: https://github.com/muffinista/gopherpedia.com/blob/master/fe...

Also, it doesn't appear to handle non-Roman characters. From the Wikipeida article on Tokyo: "(, ), officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan..." Or is this a limitation of my Gopher client?

Interesting. I get interested into something, (even legacy stuff) then everyone is in.

Maybe is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floodgate_effect

But there was a concise term about that.

I believe you're thinking of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. The one where you discover about somenthing and then start to see it everywhere.

The frequency illusion is indeed real but there has been a definite uptick in posts about Gopher here.

Well, that was fun for aboit half an hour, then my brain was all "so why are we parsing fixed space fonts again? Did I miss some memo?"

Would be a lot nicer with normal presentation. The menu structure works pretty well on a mobile phone. Don't miss the pictures at all. 6/10 would play with again.

gopher clients in the early 90s typically ran on a unix terminal with mono-spaced fonts, whose style this web interface is mimicking.

Oh, brings back memories. gopher wiretap.spies.com was always my go to gopher site.

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