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Gopher Wiki

Gopher is a pre-web internet protocol based on a hierarchy of menus and documents. To get started with Gopher on the town, make a public_gopher directory in your home and it will be listed on the main menu of gopher://tilde.town Create a file named gophermap to add information, links, and labels for files.

2007 Gopherspace Mirror

A video on Gopher

How to Edit Gopher Map

1.0     Text file
2.1     Directory
3.2     CSO name server
4.3     Error
5.4     Mac HQX filer
6.5     PC binary
7.6     UNIX uuencoded file
8.7     Search server
9.8     Telnet Session
10.9    Binary File
11.c    Calendar (not in 2.06)
12.e    Event (not in 2.06)
13.g    GIF image
14.h    HTML, Hypertext Markup Language
15.i    "inline" text type
16.s    Sound
17.I    Image (other than GIF)
18.M    MIME multipart/mixed message
19.T    TN3270 Session/

Gopher Map Example

Welcome to my Gopher page!

0My text file   file1.txt
9My pdf file    file2.pdf
1My dir dir

1.0Why is Gopher Still Relevant?        /gopher/relevance.txt   gopher.floodgap.com     70
2.hAn http link URL:http://tilde.town/

References

SDF Gophermap Guide

SDF Gophermap Guide Archive