On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:48:54 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk allegedly wrote:
The reason I installed gopher, was because of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#Native_Gopher_support
Which didn't list any browsers I had, that could natively handle gopher, and I reasoned that I could install and install a small app with more control & safety, than I could install or uninstall a browser plug-in, BICBW, YMMV! :-)
And of course, ICBW...
Odd that. It must just show how long it must be since last tried to access a gopher server with a browser. I could swear "it just worked" last time I tried it. The scary thing is that the link you give above says that it was supported natively in Netscape. I can't remember the last time I used that browser. And what I hadn't spotted just now is that I was really only accessing a webserver on port 70, not a gopher server.
And I had forgotten that the gopher search engine (or gopher database) was called Veronica. Can you imagine people saying "just go veronica it....."
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