Smol Internet

Twenty-five years ago, a small band of programmers from the University of Minnesota ruled the internet. And then they didn’t.

Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: The Small Web. To understand what the Small Web is, let’s compare it to the Big Web. In other words, to the centralised Web we have today. The Big Web You are allowed to rent space on Megacorp’s servers in exchange for giving up your privacy, freedom of speech, and other human rights.

In most cases, you can just serve files directly on your Gopher menus with no additional setup. If you do need to customize your menus, here's how to do it.

An alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

gopher library & server written in Haskell. Contribute to sternenseemann/spacecookie development by creating an account on GitHub.

A brief explanation of how the Gopher protocol works.

This memo is an introductory guide to some of the TCP/IP and Internet tools and utilities that allow users to access the wide variety of information on the network, from determining if a particular host is up to viewing a multimedia thesis on foreign policy. It also describes discussion lists accessible from the Internet, ways to obtain Internet documents, and resources that help users weave their way through the Internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

Gophie is the Open Source Gopher browser for Windows, macOS, Linux and many more operating systems with Java support.

The 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web passed earlier this year. Naturally, this milestone was met with truckloads of nerdy fanfare and pining for those simpler times. In three decades, the Web…

What is NNCP? NNCP lets you securely send files, or request remote execution, between systems. It uses asynchronous communication, so the source and destination need never be online simultaneously. NNCP can route requests via intermediate devices – other NNCP nodes, USB sticks, tapes, radios, phones, cloud services, whatever – leading to a network that is highly resilient and flexible. NNCP makes it much easier to communicate with devices that lack Internet connectivity, or have poor Internet.

A curated list of Fediverse applications based on the ActivityPub protocol.

More than a decade ago, gopher took the Net by storm. The Web stole its thunder soon after, but enthusiasts are still keeping it alive -- and bringing it into the future. By Lore Sjöberg.