Re: good gopher article by Cory Doctorow

Hi John,

Yes, screen scraping was a thing.  I have some old expect scripts to
download the weather, and way, way before
there were headless browsers we had a scripted tn3270 emulator that let us
grab screens in a programmatic way.

Cool to hear about your experiments with physical terminals and LoRa.  I'm
a supporter of Diaster Radio <https://disaster.radio/>
which uses LoRa radios and Arduino boards to create a mesh network.  Check
it out.

The closest I came to old school terminals is Cool Retro Term
<https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term>
I recompiled elm and took some screenshots for my wife's memorial site
<https://www.julieslife.com/more/email>
using old mbox files.   Elm influenced the curses client as you can
clearly see.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 3:33 PM John Goerzen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Really appreciate you doing that, Paul.  I learned quite a bit; I hadn't
> realized that screen-scraping was such a thing in Gopherspace back then.
>
> I recently purchased a DEC vt420 and a DEC vt510 off eBay.  Once I got
> it hooked up to a Raspberry Pi and working (turns out there is a lot of
> bugginess in modern support for XON/XOFF terminals), of course the first
> thing I did was fire up gopher and run it in its natural habitat.  I had
> never owned an actual serial terminal before, and only rarely used one
> in a library back in the day.
>
>
> https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10031-resurrecting-ancient-operating-systems-on-debian-raspberry-pi-and-docker
>
> I, uh, may have also tunneled Gopher over long-range low-power LoRa
> radios recently....
>
>
> https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10042-long-range-radios-a-perfect-match-for-unix-protocols-from-the-70s
>
> I tunneled TCP/IP over it.  Ping times around 500ms, throughput around
> 30Kbps.  It's as if it's 1995 again around here.  (I did do some
> optimization and running TCP/IP over PPP instead of AX.25 made some
> improvements there later.)
>
> It seems the first thing I want to test on a new link is Gopher.
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Feb 22 2020, Paul Lindner wrote:
>
> > A+++ would advise again :)
> >
> > ... and thanks to all the folks keeping Gopher going.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 11:30 AM Glenn Holmer <cenbe-A7wQCf4NAVlWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses
> >>
> >> --
> >> Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
> >> "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
> >>
>