[gopher] Burrowing a Gopher Hole (tedium.co article)

[Matthew Holevinski]

What a great read!

Matt Holevinski
On Jun 26, 2017 9:49 AM, "SiMpLe MaChInEs" <simple at sdf.org> wrote:

> This crossed my line of vision recently; Cameron and other get a nod:
>
> Burrowing a Gopher Hole
> Ernie Smith / editor @ tedium.co
>
>  "Every time I use pieces of the early internet, I get this warm feeling in
>   my chest. It's hard to describe, but I imagine it's a feeling not unlike
>   the feeling that went through the crowd during the Sex Pistols concert at
>   Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall on June 4, 1976. There's a sense of
>   purity and simplicity there that is hard to recapture through other
>   means--the sense that I'm witnessing something culturally important that,
>   in its own way, could change the world. It feels unadulterated, without
>   the frayed ends and sense of familiarity that come with years or even
>   weeks of constant use. And it's one of those things where, if you feel it
>   once, it's kind of like a drug. I had that feeling recently when I was
>   reading up on Gopher, a part of the internet that got overshadowed by the
>   World Wide Web, but in its own quiet way, still lingers on. I wanted to
>   check its pulse--and while it's not a hustle-and-bustle in the way that,
>   say, Twitter is, it carries. Tonight's Tedium talks about the Gopher
> scene
>   in 2017. Yes, there still is one."
>
> link: http://tedium.co/2017/06/22/modern-day-gopher-history/
>
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