[gopher] gopher://gopher.metafilter.com/

[Randall Wood]

It hit HackerNews [1] today, so I was able to gather some info.  From
Metafilter]s own page [2] there are some really funny FAQs.  Simple
answer is: it wasn't hard to do and they had the RAM/resources, so why
the hell not?  Sweet answer.

Above all, check out the conversation on Hacker News that ensued. [3]
Lots of sweet nostalgia for gopher, and just a little bit for Usenet too.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com
[2]
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/24019/Direct-your-gopher-client-to-gopher-gophermetafiltercom
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11183824

Long live retro!

On Friday, February 26, 2016 08:16:32 AM Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > Wow!  I've only just begun digging in - very cool!  Is there some
> > history to it?  How did this come to be?
> 
> I don't know the history of it. Apparently it was around for awhile,
> disappeared, and was brought back.
> 
>