Posted: 1/20/2006 3:31:55 PM EDT
Remember that thread of yours? The one we're waiting to archive? It looks to be that waiting isn't working. Any chance of getting that post out of you again? I swear we won't lose it this time!! 
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lmao! You know, AR15.com is the first discussion forum I ever joined or participated in... back in '99 I believe. Had I known this post count thing was gonna pay off so much, I'd have stuck around the whole time! I have about 10k or more posts scattered across the web now.... is there any way to get them all transferred over here, you know, like a balance transfer on a credit card? 
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 Sorry but that's a no go 
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What the heck was gopher? I only used the internet to meet people in chat rooms...who would have thunk I would have married one of those weirdo's 
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So when does Kooter get to meet the new guy? |
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I started out with a 300 baud phone coupler. When I bought my Mac Plus I thought I was shit-hot because I could get a 2400 baud modem for it. Mmmmmm...high speed. 
Gopher is/was a retrieval protocol. Kinda like google or yahoo except it would much more actively search for something than "modern" search engines. If you wanted something like a document with the word quantum in the title and the string "wave function" inside the doc it would go out and hit a bunch of servers and databases and retrieve all the docs that matched. It was great. The web and greedy academics killed it pretty much. Here's a couple of links. I have to see if I still have my original "internet" map. It's a one page ascii document of the entire Arpanet. I used to uucp into the MIT server and start rummaging around. People would see you on the machine and "talk" to you. You'd end up "chatting" with everybody from freshmen students to ancient professors. Things were much friendlier in those days. Except of course in news.  Here's a couple of gopher links. The Wiki, of course The Gopher Manifesto How to tell if you a nerd: 1. Your not offended when someone calls you a nerd. In fact, you generally say thank you when addressed this way. 2. You use words like, "digital compression" or "multi-generational tape architecture" in a sentence. 3. Your mouth doesn't feel funny saying words like "digital compression" or "multi-generational tape architecture". 4. You speed read technical manuals like they were the funny pages. 5. You spend time at family reunions comparing Play Station thumb with all your 8 year old cousins 6. You use the screen name "old_guy" on socom2 online and it really does apply. 7. When somebody asks you how many languages you know it takes you a couple of minutes to realize they mean spoken languages. 8. You think C++ is pretty slick but real programming means assembly. 9. You know the words splat and dot don't refer to stains or pen marks. 10. You haven't used a real writing instrument in years. 11. You have to use a cell phone to order pizza because both phone lines you have are in use by a modem. 12. You actually have friends on the internet, whom you've never meet, seen or spoken to in real life. 13. You identify most of the things on this list as applying to yourself. ETA: I actually used the words multi-generation tape architecture in a meetng today. Nobody looked at me funny and most people were nodding their heads when I said. I just realized I work with a bunch of weirdos. |
