{"id":2474,"date":"2006-08-01T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T10:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2006-08-01T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T10:14:44","slug":"gopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2474","title":{"rendered":"Gopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/06\/08\/gopher-still-going\">Kottke<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gopher_protocol\">Gopher<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Gopher, developed in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, is a text-only, hierarchical document search and retrieval protocol that was supplanted by the more flexible WWW in the mid-1990s. Some servers running this old protocol are still alive, however. The WELL, an online discussion board and community that started back in 1985, is still running a Gopher server. If you&#8217;ve got a recent version of Firefox, you can check it out in its original Gopher-y state at gopher:\/\/gopher.well.com\/ or with any web browser at http:\/\/gopher.well.com:70\/.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember using Gopher (and being quite impressed by it) in the early 1990&#8217;s via a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\">UW<\/a> supplied dialup internet account.   <\/p>\n<p> This was before the growth of local ISP&#8217;s (Internet Service Providers).  The UW told non faculty\/students\/staff to move on once the internet started to take off (1994?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kottke on Gopher: Gopher, developed in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, is a text-only, hierarchical document search and retrieval protocol that was supplanted by the more flexible WWW in the mid-1990s. Some servers running this old protocol are still alive, however. The WELL, an online discussion board and community that started back in 1985, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}