List of Active Gopher Servers

On December 1, 2021, these gopher servers were known to be active. This is just a partial list of active gopher servers.  After a gaining popularity in the early 1990's, internet gopher activity had almost become extinct as the world wide web grew. However, activity in "gopher space" has increased markedly in recent years as interest has revived.

To access content on these gopher servers, you will need to find a gopher browser.  Gopher used to be included in web browsers, but was removed. If you look, you should be able to find dedicated gopher browsers for most operating systems.  You can also use this web-to-gopher proxy service accessible from https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/

If you enter these url's directly into a regular web browser, there may or may not be some content that will appear. Most gopher holes use port 70, while websites use different ports.  When using a gopher browser, you will use the prefix gopther://, such as gopher://floodgap.com

List:

phlogosphere.org

floodgap.com

magical.fish

mail2.automario.eu

git.codemadness.org

josuah.net

circumlunar.space

zwurlik.mooo.com

perihelion.ultradian.club

falaf.gprt.fr

attaque-cinq.com

gopher.oldfolio.org

hhvn.uk:73

gopher.almeida.uk.to

04d.co

oh.mg

runjimmyrunrunyoufuckerrun.com

vulpes.one

scheme.fail

weinholt.se

happylandbbs.com:7070

pleroma.envs.net:7070

ascii.mozz.us:7070

gopher.icu

texto-plano.xyz

codemadness.org

retroforth.org

gopher.sixy.name

gopher.ddns.net

breadpunk.club

stealthworld.ga

beepboop.systems

ozz.ddns.net

gopher.urbanhacker.net

bigchung.us

amox.online

gopher.linuxmario.net

akkuscm.org

dimension.sh

caffeine.drkhsh.at

gopher.richardfalken.com

soviet.circumlunar.space

gopher.fnord.one

thebackupbox.net

hhvn.uk

gopher.erb.pw

20forbeers.com

ratthing.com

ams1.z0.is

farragofiction.com

gopher.nkeck72.xyz

gopher.spacehippie.ca

shl.huld.re

isene.com

majenko.co.uk

port70.de

crn.hopto.org

gopher.casperscupboard.com

dio9sys.fun

xibalba.l33t.codes

gopher.operationalsecurity.es

fripster.ydns.eu

nz.xeroxirc.net

gopher.prismdragon.net

serf.jpmens.net

thunix.net

dome.circumlunar.space

gopher.veroneau.net

gopher.info-underground.net

d6.szif.hu

carcosa.net

declanhoare.id.au

rawtext.club

caracolito.mooo.com

gopher.nappey.org

bay.parazy.de:666

0x1bi.net

phlog.stargrave.org

64.227.84.9

gopher.32kb.net

toromino.de

gopher.pizza

gopher.magicmargin.net

yasendfile.org

g.nixers.net

nytpu.com

45.32.178.12

nuclear.utsuho.rocks

gopher.ratthing.com

z3bra.org

friller.works:7070

finalzone.ddns.net

mirrors.apple2.org.za

dataswamp.org

therandymon.com

ake.crabdance.com

ake.crabdance.com:77

gopher.waynewerner.com

blog.qartis.com

aussies.space

sectordisk.pw

sen.cx

gopher.unixlore.net

createaforum.com

pi2.zwurlik.com

quix.us

forthworks.com:7005

gopher.somnolescent.net

gopher.lottalinuxlinks.com

tekk.in

nickmaslon.com

gopher.voyez.ca

gopher.defaultroutes.de

katolaz.net

parazyd.org

pdp11.tk

gopher.gnarledthicket.net

gemeinde.zermatt.ch

andr01d.zapto.org:7070

adamsgaard.dk

gopher.linkerror.com

code.dgold.eu

deftly.net

colincogle.name

petermolnar.net

thinkmoult.com

tilde.pink

kagu-tsuchi.com

mozz.us:7003

verisimilitudes.net

ascraeus.org

gopher.oldfart.eu

jfm.carcosa.net

invisibleup.com

suika.erkin.party

tawara.de

gopher.nonlinear.zone

mozz.us:7006

srjskam.iki.fi

ftp.icm.edu.pl

zxnet.co.uk

ygrex.ru

salsa.net

xn--9bi.net

gopher.tamagothi.de

glog.fosconetwork.org

gopher.talkingcats.com

pongonova.org

gopher.semmel.ch

zzo38computer.org

firien.helluin.org

gopher.wensley.org.uk

gopher.rbfh.de

sandrolittke.de

vert.synchro.net

gopher.r-36.net

gopher.umbrellix.net

telefisk.org

bbs.kd3.us

moo.ca

devio.us

mozz.us:7005

tourism-bureau.seattle.wa.us

nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu

zlg.space

gopher.zcrayfish.soy

gopher.conman.org

mozz.us

gopherspace.de

gopher.docfile.org

forthworks.com:7004

sdfeu.org

hngopher.com

port70.net

khzae.net

redcon.dimensionless.space

tilde.team

tilde.town

gopher.rp.spb.su

forthworks.com

fuckup.solutions

cyber.dabamos.de

heavysquare.com

tellus.strangled.net

p3x981.com

gopher.petergarner.net

uninformativ.de

baud.baby

kamalatta.ddnss.de

tomas.dscloud.me

gopher.metafilter.com

medialab.freaknet.org

i-logout.cz

box.matto.nl

codevoid.de

gopher.black

bitreich.org

1436.ninja

alexschroeder.ch

gopher.superglobalmegacorp.com

gopher.quux.org

vernunftzentrum.de

zaibatsu.circumlunar.space

cosmic.voyage

gopherpedia.com

gopher.club

gopher.floodgap.com

sdf.org

gopher.viste.fr

kroovy.de

gopher.karel.tt.ee

colorfield.space

gopher.endangeredsoft.org

typed-hole.org

pollett.org

gopher.solobsd.org

gopher.grahamdowney.com

gopher.mtxdev.com

schinkel.bevuta.com

gopher.unixwire.com

gopher.smolderingwizard.com

lumidify.org

suckless.org

origin.rxivist.org

infinitelyremote.com

dusted.dk

gopher.mills.io

pogemon.pw

gopher.veronet.org

tccr.it

seedy.xyz

downlinkomega.net

tty1.uk

cvs.synchro.net

data.gopher.se

freeway.apana.org.au

demu.red

boghop.net

gopher.antirez.com

files.dyne.org

tilde.institute

boris.shminke.ml

gopher.visiblink.ca

worldofsolitaire.com

gopherddit.com

darioniedermann.it

silentmessengers.org

thelambdalab.xyz

2807591230

maistre.uni.cx

sl0w.org

boomlin.de

sawv.org

envs.net

tilde.club

jan.bio

yam655.com

gopher.leitzahl.de

zaledia.com

gopher.gophernicus.org

nihirash.net

gopher.fifth.space

brause.cc

eyeblea.ch

first-nemogw.ethz.ch

gopher.binary-kitchen.de

e1e0.net

bombadillo.colorfield.space

vger.cloud

spriteclad.com

mpcclub.info

How to Disable Annoying Website Notifications in Microsoft Edge.

Traveling around the internet, its easy to encounter tricky websites that want to shove all manner of annoying notifications at you.. These little messages will constantly slide out of the side of your screen, interrupting your work as they try to sell you all kinds of nasty software and services.

I had this issue today, and I wasn't able to quickly discover how to turn off these notifications in Microsoft Edge browser.  It turns out the solution is fairly simple.

You can right click on the annoying notification, and then remove the offending website from your list.

Or you can go directly to the necessary Edge setting page by pasting this link into your Edge web browser:

edge://settings/content/notifications

I hope this saves you a little time!

The list of Creative Commons News Sources You Have Been Searching For.

 Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash

I was doing research, trying to locate Creative Commons licensed news content for a project that I have been working on.

My goal was to find a CC licensed news source for every state in the U.S.A.  This really took me down the rabbit hole, and to be honest, I haven't finished my research yet.  I'm nowhere near finishing. But in the process of long hours of searching, I did uncover a lot of decent CC licensed news sources.   Even in its unfinished form, I think I have assembled enough content here to be useful for others who want to discover and utilize Creative Commons news content.  

My learning is that there is a ton of high quality news out there licensed under Creative Commons, but it is not well organized.  The problem is that there is no complete centralized source to help you identify these sources. And many of the sources don't flagrantly advertise their CC license. 

Creative Commons has a partial list of sources.  Wikipedia, being itself the largest CC resources on search, also has a list.  I think my list (below) is probably as good as either of theirs.

I'll keep updating this as my research progresses. If you know of other good CC news sites, please post them in the comments below.  I especially still want to find one CC news source (newspaper, radio, blog, etc) for each state. I'd be greatful if you could help me with that.

Meanwhile, I have also decided to CC license this list, and this entire blog under Creative Commons license: Attribution-Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), because its not fair to take without giving something back.

Creative Commons licensed news sources

Alaska, none found
Alabama,
Arizona, Arizona Ctr Investigative Reporting, https://azcir.org/content/
Arizona, AZ Mirror, https://www.azmirror.com/
Arkansas,
California, none found
Florida,
Georgia, Georgia Recorder, georgiarecorder.com
Illionois, State Journal Register, sj-r.com
Indiana - none found
Iowa, iowacapitaldispatch, iowacapitaldispatch.com
Kentucky,
Minnesota, Minnesota Reformer, minnesotareformer.com
Mississippi,
Missouri Independent, missouriindependent.com
Montana Free Press, https://montanafreepress.org/publish-our-work/
Montana, MTCIR.org, https://mtcir.org/use-our-content/
NY, The New Inquiry, thenewinquiry.com
North Dakota, none found
Ohio Capital Journal, ohiocapitaljournal.com
Oregon, none found
South Dakota, none found
Texas Tribune, texastribune.org
Texas - El Paso Matters, elpasomatters.org/

Washington, none found
Wisconsin, https://wisconsinwatch.org/wcij-republishing-guidelines/

Ontario, Canada: https://www.thepublicrecord.ca/use-our-content-our-licensing/
Australia, https://www.newcastleonhunter.org/about/terms-of-use-our-content/

Other Topics:
Nature, https://news.mongabay.com/copyright/creative-commons/
Science, https://www.scidev.net/global/

Indigenous News: commondreams.org
Healthcare:
Elsevier, elsevier.com
Kaiser Health News, khn.org

More stuff to categorize, eventually:
linuxfoundation.org
geogebra.org
https://unicornriot.ninja/faq/
rferl.org
extratime.media,

https://cpj.org
https://publicintegrity.org/about/republishing-our-stories/
https://wire.farmradio.fm/use-our-content/
https://www.mylesandkatharineweiss.org/welcome-use-content/
https://voteraccess.org/use-our-content/
https://www.cognitive-edge.com/user-agreement/
https://singularityhub.com/creative-commons/
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us/our-funding
https://knightfoundation.org/reports/center-investigative-reporting-california-watch/
check these sources... https://www.newsforgood.org/info/newsroom-state

Find more CC Sources: https://medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/heres-how-local-news-outlets-can-access-quality-national-content-at-no-cost-93eccf07ec41

Small Software Companies, Beware of Using Share-It/MyCommerce as your Order Processor

Fifteen years ago, I began developing a software program and began selling it online.  To process orders and distribute activation keys, I chose to use a service called SWreg.  Eventually, SWReg was acquired by a company called Digital River and rolled into an even better service called RegNow.  RegNow had a really good reseller program with websites and IT providers who would sign up to resell my app.  The RegNow support people were based in the U.S., and were always very friendly and eager to help when you needed them.

A few years ago, Digital River decided to merge RegNow with Share-It, another one of their platforms based in Germany, under the MyCommerce marketing banner.  As a result of this, I was required to re-enter all of the information from RegNow into the Share-It platform.  The process was disruptive. It was a lot of work to make this change, since by now I had a portfolio of about a dozen products I was offering, and I had to copy and upload graphics, change my software activation scheme, and export/import text in several different languages. I also underwent a rigorous and unpleasant 'know your customer' process through Share-It.  It took me a week to redo everything and jump through their hoops.   But I made it.

After the changeover, I found that when I had a question, the Share-It team would take longer to get back to me, often the response was not helpful, or my question was misunderstood. Oh well. I persevered and finally got to the other side of that intensive process.

The more serious impact to me after the change from RegNow to Share-It is that I lost my RegNow resellers.  I was assured I could tap into the Share-It reseller program.  However, the Share-It program proved to be much less effective for my products. Most of these Share-It resellers are basically just 'discounter' website that rebate the commission I pay them back to buyers. Instead of seeing these 'resellers' as complimentary to my marketing efforts, it became clear that they were competitors intent on selling my product cheap.     

But I hung in, thinking that I things would be better eventually.  Indeed, slowly the sales began to increase on the Share-It platform, and I slowly began to re-build my book of business with recurring revenue.  After a few years, the recurring revenue was growing steadily.

But during their platform evolution, MyCommerce/Share-It seemed to refocus from serving all software developers (including smaller entrepreneurial, independent developers), to just the really big software companies. I don't begrudge them their growth opportunities, but in the process, the decision was apparently made to prune smaller resellers like me from their system.

Last week, after 15 years of working with Digital River platforms, I was unceremoniously booted from the platform.  I was told this would happen about 30 days prior. At that time, I emailed them and explained my situation and asked them to reconsider terminating our long relationship.  But they kept asking me how much I could grow my business, and I asked them how much I had to grow it to stay on their platform. They didn't reply to my questions, only demanding that I answer theirs. 

It became clear to me that these were not the same friendly, helpful U.S. based people at RegNow who helped me build my business initially.  The relationship had suddenly become very one-sided. This was not the same platform that brought effective resellers who brought a complementary sales channel and earned their commissions.  Share-It no longer saw this as a mutually beneficial relationship, but one that should benefit only them.

What really has hurt me is the disruption to my business. I've had to hastily find a new platform provider (2checkout).  I've had to redo marketing all over again.  The internet is now littered with dead-end 'share-it' links to buy my software. 

But here is what hurt the most:

All of the recurring subscriptions that my business had earned on Share-It are now gone.  With a single arbitrary, capricious decision that can't be appealed, they wiped the entire recurring subscription revenue book of business.  Its clear that Share-It customers are THEIR customers, not YOURS.  You have no way to move those subscriptions with you if they decide to boot you. All the work you've done will simply be destroyed, wiped away.

I've started looking at other ways of managing subscription sales.  If I am going to take the time and expense to once again rebuild my business, I absolutely do not don't want to go through this again, or feel as powerless and insignificant as Share-It/MyCommerce made me feel.

My advice to you if you are considering Share-It/MyCommerce is to ask yourself:

Am I making enough revenue to ensure that I meet their capricious requirements (whatever they are)?

What would happen to my business if they wiped out my entire book of subscription revenue?

Is customer service and support important to me, because you're not going to get it from this service.

My intention here isn't to just bash Share-It/MyCommerce.  I want to convey my experience, and to let you know how this company does business before you invest blood sweat and tears in making Share-It/MyCommerce a very critical part of your sales and marketing infrastructure.  While they may be a critical part of your business, it's pretty clear that you will never be a critical part of theirs.

I think its sad that after so many years, after dodging bullets from Google to keep my business afloat, after navigating through an employee suicide, after surviving a pandemic and dealing with so many other close calls over the years, that this little business which is important to me and my family, could be done in by a 'partner' that I trusted for fifteen years to handle the most critical part of our business infrastructure.   That I could be wiped out so quickly by someone we trusted so much, was a shock that I didn't expect, but probably should have.

Telegram Bot Won't Send URL Containing Hash Symbol #

I maintain a Telegram bot. I found it was unable to send a URL while the URL contained a # symbol.

For example,  if I want the bot to send a response to a Telegram user but the response contains a URL like, www.domain.com/test#123, Telegram will not send the response to the user. The problem is that Telegram doesn't like the hash # symbol in the URL, or that the Python 3 requests library doesn't encode it properly. If I remove the #, then the response is sent to the user.

The solution I eventually found required me to import quote_plus library from requests, and then use it to encode the hash symbol # to a variable.

import requests

from urllib.parse import quote_plus

Next I encoded the html symbol for #:

h = quote_plus("#")

 

Now I include it in the url f'string, like:

f'www.domain.com/test{h}123'

The result for me is that now Telegram will accept the string and return it to the user.

Hope this helps!