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Welcome to the gopher renaissance
Some useful gopher services:
- Wikipedia front-end
gopher://gopherpedia.com - Reddit front-end
gopher://gopherddit.com
Discover new places:
gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongustagopher://gopher.black/1/moku-ponagopher://gopher.clubgopher://tildeverse.org
Web proxies:
- https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?=sdf.org+70+31
- https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tildeverse.org
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Also thinking about this for slightly larger-ticket items... not unlike that sweet 1802 kit of yours, actually. :)
It might be worth thinking about some kind of rating system or method for confirming purchases a la Reddit marketplaces. Maybe buyers can create a gopher-accessible file with purchase details and sellers can link to that as a way of building a reputation.
You've actually convinced me that this was at least a reasonable idea but I don't think a gopherhole shop rating system would be in theme with the closely knit community dynamic we have.
The protocol was going to have a feature-rich, shopping-friendly set of extensions, but when this was proposed in 1993, there was a community backlash against commercialising the gopher; read Albert Rosetti's booklet about what happened. This is roughly how the gopher protocol became both liberated and hyperstable in the early 90s.
Imagine if a gopher wanted to sell or otherwise pass on some old computer hardware. It makes sense to share that on their gopherhole: And since payment handling is ~ always legally middle-manned by a payment handler who will handle the payment anyway, the protocol wouldn't need to be extended to be a payment processer.
On the other hand, I would be against paving paradise to put up a parking lot.