If you haven’t noticed, I am a member of Bitreich, which is one of the forerunners in not just preserving The Internet Gopher Protocol, but propelling it forward. The Gopher Protocol is a very simple barebones protocol from the early 90s which predated the web. Think of a different way of navigating information than a web browser, kinda.

It’s hard to convince people to use the Gopher protocol. So, why not host your own HTTP interface so people can browse your gopherhole via a website?

This is the 0th edition of Smallnet Zine (April Edition). The point of this is to just blab about the state of the smallnet, indieweb, and self-hosting. Originally I had this idea to start something called netring.cafe, which was a cool idea, but I really already have too much on my plate at-the-moment. So now I’m just going to use a tag on my phlog to act as a zine:

I am now officially a member of Bitreich! I’ll talk a bit about my membership and about Bitreich itself.

On March 19, 2025, I did a radio interview with screwtape, on his “Lispy Gopher Climate” segment on aNONradio (hosted by SDF), about Gopher, a little bit about smallnet, Gemini, Bitreich, programming philosophy, and The MADE (a museum I am making a documentary for). Screwtape has a segment on SDF’s aNONradio.

If you take a look at my GitHub you’ll notice two things:

I host different Gopher Protocol services which use different ports on one box. So I kind of need a reverse proxy of sorts. I wanted to make sure I could access all of them using port 70.

Making Lagrange display ASCII-art heavy gopherholes in a (hopefully) nicer way.

I have a VT320 with a unix-style LK401 (?) keyboard. I connected it via serial to my Debian server. Here’s how.

Liferea allows you to use a command as a feed source!

Dillo is a very lightweight browser. I personally enjoy it because I feel it suits Window Maker and it has Gemini and Gopher plugins.

You may have heard of static site generators. You may even have heard of the Gopher Protocol. But have you heard of a static gopherhole generator?

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

The point of this article is to get you browsing gopherspace quickly and to share some of my favorite gopherholes…

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

gopherdashboard.

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).