h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No excuses now, ya can all browse gopherspace (including mine) using the floodgap web/gopher gateway

http://www.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/11%2fusers%2fhappy

or http://www.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/11%2fusers%2fhappy

I wanna try this, but my operating system is Windows XP!

I'm not seeing a way to get this installed to be compatible with it ... I've checked the Lynx website too. *sniffle*

Lynx looks pretty as well.

the above links should work on any browser, how did ya get onto Lynx, did ya post to the right thread, me think ya wer looking at my screen shots (F52240?thread=316023), Lynx is a very fast web browser as it is text only so no time wasted downloading graphics ... and I use Lynx on XP

Any "Win32" version of Lynx should work with XP but being a I've got "Cygwin" (go do a search on that I dare ya) installed and use the version that comes with that

if ya liked the Screen Shots take a look at F19585?thread=316174

I your Start button. It's sublime perfection! How did you do that?


I was reading about gopher, which recommended using Lynx as a browser. I did a google search and found a page that allowed me to preview my user space in Lynx ... and I liked it. No, no, no! would load nicely that way, and perhaps end my struggles with it..

Thanks for the help, Happy. I'll search out Cygwin too.

just use your normal browser, if you click the link in post 2 of this thread, you will see a bit at the top of the webpage for the gopher URL

Floodgap or Queex are good places to start

The Start button was a bit complicated and carry's a serious PC health warning if ya mess up
but...

http://www.theeldergeek.com/change_text_on_xp_start_button.htm

however before ya try anything as complicated as the above take look at Tclock2
http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

and no need for cygwin unless ya really dedicated the floodgap portal should be ok, failing that install a copy of Netscape 4.7x as that does a decent job of browsing gopherspace

I think I might *not* go to the trouble of making my PC say "Fart", on the start button after all.

But it would be

Tclock2 is a way of doing very easy with no PC health risk

I've been continueing to mod my desktop, the latest thing is new icons thanks to "Froood"
http://www.foood.net/icons/index.htm

What I *still* don't get is... WHY use gopher?

(Even if I just read http://www.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://sdf.lonestar.org:70/00/sdf/faq/GOPHER/01. Maybe I just don't *want* information and files. )

it's a backlash against the over commerisation of the web, it's where ya go when ya suffered on pop up add to many and ya don't know about hootoo

or in my case, it's just fun getting retro

Ooooooo, techstuff!!!

::toddles off to check out some of the links::

Retro? Makes sense then. I got my good? old! 486 Win3.1 up running again yesterday.

*waits for the headhurts smileeee*

It's kinda like turning the color knob off to experience black and white television, isn't it, Happy?

I can see the advantage of Gopher as far as access speed of web information is concerned ... this could really come in handy for me at work.

retro it is

Couldn't access it!!!!

http://www.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/11%2fusers%2fhappy

weird

Got it!!!