[gopher] Any good programmers on here?

Nick Matavka n.theodore.matavka.files at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 17:52:07 UTC 2012


On 2 June 2012 11:37, Bradley D. Thornton <Bradley at northtech.us> wrote:
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> On 06/02/2012 12:56 AM, Nick Matavka wrote:
>> I've got
>> a cool vintage Web browser (and Gopher client!) that used to be the
>> W3C's testbed browser till they pawned it off on Yggdrasil, who
>> promptly disappeared.
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> That's totally kewl Nick! I didn't know that about the browser though. I
> spoke to Adam a couple of times back then, and have tried to find out
> what happened to him (and Phil Hughes - original publisher of LJ, who I
> *think* left the industry and moved to Panama or something) but the
> trail dead ends everywhere I look.
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> You have a great idea there though.
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> It' s called Arena and it would be great to see
>> it turn into Ygg's original vision, a GPL-licenced browser for the X
>> Window System (uses Motif).  I would love to see this browser turn
>> into an HTML 3 browser that would be lightweight and super fast,
>> something like Lynx with pretty pictures.
>>
>>  I've got the latest version right here.
>> http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/web/arena_0.3.62.orig.tar.gz
>>
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Let's get this straight.  Are you saying that further development of
this software is anything close to a serious possibility?

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