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--- protocols:gopher:start [2026/09/23 14:52] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ protocols:gopher:start [2026/10/23 15:41] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 **Year:** 1991\\
 **Port:** 70\\
-**Created by:** Mark McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, Bob Alberti — University of Minnesota
+**Created by:** Mark McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, Bob Alberti: University of Minnesota
 ===== What It Is =====
-A hierarchical menu system for navigating directories and text documents. Faster and simpler than FTP. Navigated via ''gophermap'' files — each entry is a type prefix, display text, path, and server address, tab-separated.
+A hierarchical menu system for navigating directories and text documents. Faster and simpler than FTP. Navigated via ''gophermap'' files: each entry is a type prefix, display text, path, and server address, tab-separated.
 ===== History =====
-Built in secret to route around a design-by-committee campus information system. Released without official approval — and then the rest of the Internet found it. Briefly competed with the World Wide Web as a genuine equal in 1991–1993.
+Built in secret to route around a design-by-committee campus information system. Released without official approval: and then the rest of the Internet found it. Briefly competed with the World Wide Web as a genuine equal in 1991-1993.
 Lost when the University of Minnesota announced licensing fees for commercial use. Tim Berners-Lee had declared HTTP and HTML free forever. Within two years, the race was over because of one institutional decision about money.
-The name is a triple pun: the University of Minnesota's mascot (Golden Gopher); the act of burrowing; and "go-fer" — someone who fetches things on request.
+The name is a triple pun: the University of Minnesota's mascot (Golden Gopher); the act of burrowing; and "go-fer": someone who fetches things on request.
 ===== It's Not Dead =====
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 ===== Local Setup =====
-Files live in ''~/gopherholes/'', synced to tilde.town via [[terminal:tools:rsync|rsync]]:
+Files are stored in ''~/gopherholes/'', synced to tilde.town via [[terminal:tools:rsync|rsync]]:
 <code bash>
 ./bin/gopher-build.sh    # copies content to gopherholes/output/
-./bin/sync-to-tilde.sh   # syncs to tilde.town
+rsync -avz ./dir/ you@tilde.town:~/   # push to tilde.town
 </code>
-Hosted at: ''gopher://tilde.town/1/~brennan''
+Hosted at: ''gopher://tilde.town/1/~you''
 ===== See Also =====