Comments on: Download A Piece of Internet History

By: Wolf

Wolf — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:32:46 +0000

I’m working on making a web-based Gophernet archive & proxy, with both the 2007 & 2010 archives, as well as a continuously updated archive, similar to the wayback machine. Send me an email for more info. I’m still writing the server software, but plan to have a beta version up in a couple months.

By: emijrp

emijrp — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:53:13 +0000

Thanks for this. Good work.

By: Moein

Moein — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:26:51 +0000

That’s Great !
Thank You.

By: The “digital humanities” term and the clowns who usurpated it. | Jean-François Gariépy's blog

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:13:16 +0000

[...] there’s EmuWiki.com, there’s the GeoCities mirroring project, there’s the Gopher archive torrent. These projects represent some of the best attempts at archiving massive amounts of digital history [...]

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:10:29 +0000

RE: the torrent, is there anyway to split the main files into several smaller ones as FAT32 cannot support files larger than 4gb therefore I can’t download the main file without switching to NTFS.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:23:29 +0000

Look at the earlier comments. Someone already posted it to Youtube.

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:11:29 +0000

I think the videos should be separately available, ideally also in iPod-compatible formats. Surely at least posting to Vimeo is attainable?

By: Descarga el espacio Gopher - Tecnología Obsoleta

Descarga el espacio Gopher - Tecnología Obsoleta — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:04:48 +0000

[...] en un bicho raro, pero hay quien ha llevado la añoranza por los Gopher al límite de lo posible. The Changelog ha recopilado los archivos públicos presentes todavía en el Gopherespacio hacia 2007. A [...]

By: Robert Hardesty

Robert Hardesty — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:01:25 +0000

I would be willing to host the site if you like. What are your needs for the site? I have plenty of servers lying around doing and would be willing to donate their cycles to seeing this project move forward. Please let me know if you are interested.

By: EmuWikiAdmin

EmuWikiAdmin — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:22:42 +0000

I volunteer to furnish a 100 mbps dedicated server to archive.org to host this archive.

By: Tom Morris

Tom Morris — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:47:51 +0000

Downloading it on my seedbox which has a pretty nice upload connection. Will keep it up on there for the next two weeks so the torrent should run pretty quickly.

One thing on my ‘nerd bucketlist’: run a publicly-accessible gopher server someday.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:10:28 +0000

This archive is pretty much raw data. You can, of course, serve it up as a tar.bz2 directly. To make it browseable will take some software. There is some effort to do this on the Gopher mailing list. Those of you interested — I send you thanks! — probably would be best served discussing it there. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project

By: Frode Børli

Frode Børli — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:08:57 +0000

For free, forever, ofcourse. Just wondering, do you have a ready to run way to host it? PHP or otherwise? :-)

By: Frode Børli

Frode Børli — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:06:17 +0000

We could probably host everything. Gigabit internet servers. Get in touch. :-)

By: mirabilos

mirabilos — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:50:35 +0000

A server from a friend of mine:

$ lynx -dump gopher://gopher.semmel.ch/
Gopher Menu

(FILE) [1]About_this_server
(FILE) [2]Ueber_diesen_Server
(DIR) [3]bilder
(DIR) [4]blog
(DIR) [5]links
(FILE) [6]ls-lR
[…]

By: Descarga parte de la prehistoria de la WWW | Un Mundo Libre

Descarga parte de la prehistoria de la WWW | Un Mundo Libre — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:44:39 +0000

[...] mediante un sistema de menús. Gracias al trabajo de recopilación de John Goerzen es posible descargarse parte de esa WWW prehistórica en un sólo fichero de 40GB con aproximadamente 780.000 documentos recopilados desde 2007 (el autor [...]

By: Stephen Baird

Stephen Baird — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:00:37 +0000

Hi, am downloading as I type, I should be able to host this for free permanently but will have to have a look at it first to see

Will post again when I’ve had a look

Steve

By: Guillermo Marcus

Guillermo Marcus — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:28:46 +0000

Hi,

I can offer some of my hosting space for this, I will download the file over the weekend and upload a preliminary version. Please contact me by email, then we can arrange more details as they come up.

Cheers,
Guillermo

By: msaunier

msaunier — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:49:53 +0000

I can host the entire thing in proper fashion, at a datacenter with a 10 meg connection. If you can provide a Hyper-V disk image (preferably a CentOS guest, but I hear Suse and Redhat are supported as well) and let me know what the hardware requirements are, I can get it hosted free, indefinitely.

By: auricom

auricom — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:47:42 +0000

Long live gopher! Thankyou for this.

By: Some More Gopher Data | The Changelog

Some More Gopher Data | The Changelog — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:30:34 +0000

[...] I invited you to download a piece of Internet history. Today I have unearthed a bit more data to add to [...]

By: John Griogair Bell’s Blog » links for 2010-04-29

John Griogair Bell’s Blog » links for 2010-04-29 — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:03:36 +0000

[...] Download A Piece of Internet History | The Changelog "I regret that so many Gopher sites disappeared before 2007, but life is what it is, and this is the best snapshot of the old Gopherspace that I’m aware of and would like to make sure that this piece of history is preserved." (tags: internet history retro obsolete) Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: bubblesort

bubblesort — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:12:50 +0000

I cut the video in the torrent in half and posted both halves to YouTube (10 minute limit on videos is annoying): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNY9RscP-lI

Also, I was chatting with McCahill. He said the Babbage institute at University of Minnesota might be interested in hosting it for you if you ask them.

By: Joe Abley

Joe Abley — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:44:12 +0000

I would fall off my chair in surprise of the archive.org people were not interested in this. If you need a contact, let me know.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:45:35 +0000

I distributed DVDs to interested parties back in 2007, and sent out maybe just 2 or 3 sets. It takes a lot of time to burn, label, pack, mail, etc. and I’m not really able to do that again. But maybe somebody else can.

As far as copyright issues are concerned, I suspect this would be pretty much the same as archive.org or Google Cache has to deal with. Except in this case, most of it was essentially abandoned content that people forgot even existed anyhow. Though certainly not all; there is a small active gopher community still.

By: All of Gopherspace as a single download « Big Bear Observation Post

All of Gopherspace as a single download « Big Bear Observation Post — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:40:01 +0000

[...] Download A Piece of Internet History (via Waxy) [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:45:18 +0000

The British Library might be interested as they haev also expanded their remit to include digital works – bl.ac.uk – and 40GB is hardly massive compared to their existing collections!

Andy

By: JC

JC — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:40:20 +0000

First of all, thanks for doing this! Our digital history is constantly in peril of falling over, degrading or even just being carelessly deleted.

Couple of questions–
i) Any chance you could distribute (physical) DVDs? Maybe just charge for the media and postage costs. I for one can’t download that much data over my connection (or, I could, but only taking months and at great expense).

ii) What would the copyright status of this archive be? Presumably you can’t claim ownership, but also presumably the original files’ copyright is with their original authors/owners. Just something to think about especially in these IP-craziness-filled times.

By: Armistral

Armistral — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:41:53 +0000

Why not try the Library of Congress? They just added Twitter, Gopher seems like a worthy addition in context.

Regards,

Armistral

By: All of Gopherspace as a single download « Hindgrindr

All of Gopherspace as a single download « Hindgrindr — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:01:33 +0000

[...] Download A Piece of Internet History [...]

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:37:31 +0000

I asked them in 2007 and was turned down, but I will try again.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:37:12 +0000

That is, of course, part of the reason for it. UMN actually GPL’d their code about 10 years ago now, but of course far too late for any kind of resurgence.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:36:44 +0000

Thanks, I’ve contacted them, but I suspect this may not be exactly what they’re interested in.

By: All of Gopherspace as a single download « MontanaQuiring.info

All of Gopherspace as a single download « MontanaQuiring.info — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:03:34 +0000

[...] Download A Piece of Internet History [...]

By: poisonit

poisonit — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:38:08 +0000

$John++, a lot of thanks.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:21:21 +0000

Hey I can host it for you.. Shoot me an email.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:05:41 +0000

John,

I have an almost-empty dedicated server and would consider hosting the whole thing in its entirety. Contact me if you’re still looking for a home for it.

Mike

By: Richard Milward

Richard Milward — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:56:39 +0000

Contact the folks at http://www.ibiblio.org/:
“Home to one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.” I bet they’ll be glad to host this!

By: crashdump

crashdump — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:15:18 +0000

nice work, the archive is now mirrored here: http://mirror.crashdump.fr/gopher_archive/

By: Amy de Buitléir

Amy de Buitléir — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:26:08 +0000

I suspect The Internet Archive would host it:

http://www.archive.org/contribute.php
http://www.archive-it.org/

By: Lesty

Lesty — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:09:07 +0000

This is cool I’ll download for sure and help seed. Great work on archiving this stuff.

By: Trevor B

Trevor B — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:11:32 +0000

Thanks a lot, downloading and will seed as long as I can.

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:04:32 +0000

One big reason for gopher’s sudden demise is that UMich decided they owned it, and sent out vaguely threatening letters concerning licensing. Shortly after, NCSA chimed in and promised to do no such thing with the newfangled WWW. Gopher’s fate was instantly sealed and the rest is history.

By: Roeland Kok

Roeland Kok — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:17:21 +0000

Thank you John! Great to see you still caring about Gopher ^_^

Gopher Lives!

By: Andy Cater

Andy Cater — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:34:03 +0000

Try the University of Kent at Canterbury – mirrorservice.org – they have the UK’s largest mirror of content