# Gopher Novice - Part VI. Cont. [Gopher Novice - Part V] Finally I got some articles about how to use Gophersphere. I've read [Diving into the Internet from 1994] and concerns of worse net from that times: > Unfortunately, that's what Gopherspace is today. Anybody can install and advertise a Gopher. Then [Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet from 1994]: > 8.8. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG > As the Internet grows ever more popular, its resources come under more of a strain. If you try to use gopher in the middle of the day, at least on the East Coast of the U.S., you'll sometimes notice that it takes a very long time for particular menus or database searches to come up. And > 8.9 FYI > David Riggins maintains a list of gophers by type and category. You can find the most recent one at the ftp site ftp.einet.net, in the pub directory. Look for a file with a name like "gopher-jewels.txt." Alternately, you can get on a mailing list to get the latest version sent I started connecting information from many places. I've spotted an archive of many articles about Gophersphere. There are informations from every point of Gopher history - [Vogue Growth Era, Mass Defection Era and Stagnancy Era]. When I've been reading about [The WELL Gopher] I can easily navigate to [The WELL's GopherSpace] at Gopher Wayback Machine. Next I've read about [Gopher Jewels], which I've seen at second guide, and, despite there are no information at Gopher Wayback Machine, I can obtain its WWW's version at [Gopher Jewels at Web Archive]. I've found also, missed earlier, [Funny Bone 1997-2001] zine. Step by step I try to imagine what was the Gophersphere like. Just take a look at Gopher Jewels and a wealth of structured data. It seems that it was easier to get the scientific information than today. Look at the [The WELL - Bruce Sterling] with many content of Shismatrix author. There are also many transcripts and so on. Interesting one is ["Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge"]. I look at it as some forgotten, for two decades, wisdom. We can read [Diving into the Internet from 1994]: > 8. When you take information from the Internet, remember that you owe a debt to those who made it available. Repay your debt by making your own contribution. Ask your local Gopher master; he or she will probably be happy to accept a donation of time to help organize, update, index, and improve the system. What is interesting, and maybe a bit funny, that more content I'm consuming in Gopher-style, the more I like it. It's true that content provided in one way is easier to process. Content is on the first place, not a fancy project of modern websites which are only content providers. I realised that I look to much at the appearance of the webpages. => gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-08-26-Gopher-novice-part-v.gmi [Gopher Novice - Part V] => gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/1/gopher [Vogue Growth Era, Mass Defection Era and Stagnancy Era] => gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/The_WELL_Gopher.txt [The WELL Gopher] => gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Gopher_Jewels_Tour.txt [Gopher Jewels] => https://web.archive.org/web/19980212210352/http:/galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html [Gopher Jewels at Web Archive] => gopher://mozz.us:70/1/wayback/2007/gopher.well.com/70 [The WELL's GopherSpace] => gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Internet_Diving.txt [Diving into the Internet from 1994] => gopher://mozz.us:70/0/wayback/2007/net1.hkbu.edu.hk/70/0/deptmenu/geogdept/document/bigdummy/ch08.txt [Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet from 1994] => gopher://mozz.us:70/1/funnybone [Funny Bone 1997-2001] => gopher://mozz.us:70/1/wayback/2007/gopher.well.com/70/1/Publications/authors/Sterling [The WELL - Bruce Sterling] => gopher://mozz.us:70/0/wayback/2007/gopher.well.sf.ca.us/70/0/Publications/authors/Sterling/freeknow.up ["Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge"] => gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Internet_Diving.txt [Diving into the Internet from 1994] -- szczezuja.space CC BY-SA @ Mon 30 Aug 2021 10:22:37 PM CEST tags: #gopher, #archive