This is more of a minor update, but my gopherspace located on SDF: gopher://gopher.club:70/1/users/kurisu/ is finally getting regular updates!
For those who don’t know, Gopher is an internet data fetching protocol which, for a very short time, looked like it was going to be the future of internet usage. That is, until the Mosaic browser and the rise of the World Wide Web.
I’ve known about the protocol since those early days, long before I had a computer, back when I was a kid reading up on this sort of thing. I never really got to actually using Gopher until 2020 as I got into the BBS scene and learned it was still alive only as a side effect of being in that community. I had honestly not considered it to still be around, but it’s indeed alive and well with those of us who truly appreciate the plaintext nature and standard formatting of Gopher.
It’s not something you can view in a web browser — that is to say, any modern one. You would need either a browser extension which would allow you to render Gopher pages (Such as OverbiteWX or OverbiteNX on Firefox) or a dedicated Gopher program.
Or, of course, if you have an old obsolete hunk of junk like my amazing PowerBook G3 running MacOS 9, ancient versions of Internet Explorer and the like do have support still in for Gopher, in at least some rudimentary form, and can be used to, quite haphazardly, browse gopherspace.
Alternately, and perhaps the best way, is use the Gopher browser on my BBS (final-zone.net) or the GOPHER program on SDF in your favorite terminal to browse to your hearts content!
Or if you want to do it the quick and dirty way, you could use the floodgap proxy to check out said gopherspace.
The choice is yours. In whatever case, expect more and different content there.