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Serge Keller on 2026-02-06:

But what really blew my mind open to the Cyberspace was Gopher.

I see new Gopherholes (the equivalent of websites on Gopher) joyfully popping up again all over the place. Perhaps this positive trend is also helped by the younger generation newly-found interest in Geminispace?

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/gopher-burrows-on/
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Erin <erin@home.invalid> writes:

Serge Keller on 2026-02-06:

But what really blew my mind open to the Cyberspace was Gopher.

I see new Gopherholes (the equivalent of websites on Gopher) joyfully
popping up again all over the place. Perhaps this positive trend is also
helped by the younger generation newly-found interest in Geminispace?

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/gopher-burrows-on/

It certainly surged during the early covid era. As did bbs's, but that's
a different animal.

I also discovered fingers and a finger ring. Fun stuff.

I'm conceptualizing a finger service and will focus on it when time
allows. Got to relaunch my gopher hole. It's been long enough.

Daniel
sysop | air & wave bbs
finger | calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw
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Serge Keller on 2026-02-06:

But what really blew my mind open to the Cyberspace was Gopher.

I see new Gopherholes (the equivalent of websites on Gopher) joyfully popping up again all over the place. Perhaps this positive trend is also helped by the younger generation newly-found interest in Geminispace?

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/gopher-burrows-on/

Thanks for the info/link <3 please keep sending us info, I did not even
knew about that site until now.


Happy Hacking
ReK2
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Erin <erin@home.invalid> writes:

Serge Keller on 2026-02-06:

But what really blew my mind open to the Cyberspace was Gopher.

I see new Gopherholes (the equivalent of websites on Gopher) joyfully
popping up again all over the place. Perhaps this positive trend is also >> helped by the younger generation newly-found interest in Geminispace?

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/gopher-burrows-on/

It certainly surged during the early covid era. As did bbs's, but that's
a different animal.

I also discovered fingers and a finger ring. Fun stuff.

I'm conceptualizing a finger service and will focus on it when time
allows. Got to relaunch my gopher hole. It's been long enough.

Daniel
sysop | air & wave bbs
finger | calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

The problem with finger the old protocol is that is not build with TLS around it
so I started a rust daemon/client that extends finger so nobody on a coffee shop
can mitm what I share etc, but then I got busy. Do anyone knows if someone else
have done something similar? The issue of this is that it needs to be
backward compatible to allow old client to connect with out TLS and maybe recomend to upgrade to a new client that supports TLS kind of what gemini did.


Happy Hacking
ReK2
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On 2026-03-11, ReK2 Hispagatos <rek2@usenet_reborn.tui> wrote:

The problem with finger the old protocol is that is not build with
TLS around it so I started a rust daemon/client that extends finger
so nobody on a coffee shop can mitm what I share etc, but then I
got busy. Do anyone knows if someone else have done something
similar? The issue of this is that it needs to be backward
compatible to allow old client to connect with out TLS and maybe
recomend to upgrade to a new client that supports TLS kind of what
gemini did.

The problem with TLS finger is that TLS is constantly requiring more
resources, so it cannot be used on a lot of retrocomputing hardware.
If you wanted to protect mission-critical data over the finger
protocol, another option would be PGP or GPG. But that would be
like wearing storm-trooper armor while riding a skateboard. Yes, it
can be done...

-Ben
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On 3/11/26 1:49 PM, ReK2 Hispagatos wrote:

The problem with finger the old protocol is that is not build with TLS around it
so I started a rust daemon/client that extends finger so nobody on a coffee shop
can mitm what I share etc, but then I got busy. Do anyone knows if someone else
have done something similar? The issue of this is that it needs to be backward compatible to allow old client to connect with out TLS and maybe recomend to upgrade to a new client that supports TLS kind of what gemini did.

I usually use a VPN and/or Tor with Gopher and similar traditionally clear-text protocols.
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Le 12/03/2026 |a 14:47, Ben Collver a |-crit-a:

But that would be
like wearing storm-trooper armor while riding a skateboard. Yes, it
can be done...

And it would look cool!
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On 3/12/26 2:55 PM, Adou wrote:

Le 12/03/2026 |a 14:47, Ben Collver a |-crit-a:

But that would be
like wearing storm-trooper armor while riding a skateboard.-a Yes, it
can be done...

And it would look cool!

do I look cool? :D finger://thebackupbox.net/finger
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Le 13/04/2026 |a 23:40, epoch a |-crit-a:

do I look cool? :D finger://thebackupbox.net/finger

You do!
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