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   Computer Nerd Kev to nospam@example.net   
   Re: terminal only for two weeks   
   14 Jan 25 06:52:03   
   
   From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   D  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, Bozo User wrote:   
   >> Once you get a Gopher/Gemini browser, among yt-dlp, the web can go away.   
   >>   
   >> Try these under lynx:   
   >>   
   >> gopher://magical.fish   
   >> gopher://gopherddit.com   
   >> gopher://sdf.org   
   >> gopher://hngopher.com   
   >>   
   >> gemini://gemi.dev (head to news waffle)   
   >>   
   >> Magical Fish it's a HUGE portal and even a 386 would be   
   >> able to use the services. You have a news source,   
   >> a translator, stock prices, weather, wikipedia over gopher,   
   >> Gutenberg, torrent search...   
   >>   
   >> Have fun.   
   >   
   > I imagine it would be very easy to write scripts to pull in what ever   
   > regular www site you might like and move it to gopher.   
      
   If it has a friendly API and that doesn't change every month. I   
   notice Gopherddit.com is broken, it just says "Subreddit not found"   
   for everything. Not that I care to read Reddit anyway.   
      
   > I will have to remember magical.fish. Gohper works beautifully in links!   
      
   No Gopher support in Links, I guess you mean ELinks or Lynx.   
      
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