[retronet] Gopher…

[Cornelius Keck]

WAIS... didn't ring a bell, so I did some digging. 
<ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/Skunk96/src/Tools/> provides 
<ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/Skunk96/src/Tools/freeWAIS-sf-2.1.tar.gz>, and 
there appears to be source code in there.

John P. Willis wrote:
>
> ----- On Aug 31, 2018, at 12:33 PM, gtaylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net wrote:
>
>> On 08/31/2018 12:18 PM, John Willis wrote:
>>> Gopher is a definite must.
>>
>> Cool.
>>
>>> I'd like to see a whole gopher network.
>>
>> Maybe.
>>
>> I think it completely depends on what services members what to host.  I
>> want to NOT force or compel anything.
>
> Agreed.
>
>>
>>> I have a server at gopher.chivanet.org that mirrors FidoNet.
>>
>> Okay.
>>
>> Now I'm wondering what "FidoNet" is in this context that you're mirroring.
>>
>
> The FidoNet discussion boards.
>
>>> Other elderly services I'm fond of include Archie, Veronica, WAIS, and UNIX
>>> talk.
>>
>> Um … I thought that Archie and Veronica were services that worked on top
>> of the Gopher protocol.  —  That just goes to show that I have a lot to
>> learn about them.
>>
>
> Executive summary: archie indexes FTP servers; veronica for Gopher.
>
>> I don't know enough about Wide Area Information Server (Z39.50:1988) to
>> talk about it.  I originally thought it was a directory service, like
>> YP/NIS/NIS+ but now think it might be more than that.
>>
>
> I've tried to find a WAIS server (even an ancient, abandoned project) a
> number of times, but always came up empty-handed.
>
>> I would REALLY love to see these various protocols used as an interface
>> to central data, like the RetroNet member directory, website / gopher
>> hole, news feeds, etc.
>>
>> I think that it should be possible to get Gopher and HTTP(S) to serve up
>> a common corpus.
>>
>
> Agreed. Even implementing the Gopher protocol from scratch is incredibly simple.
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Grant. . . .
>> unix || die
>>
>>
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