Lost technology - Veronica, the Gopher Search Engine
Just found this - a Gopher search engine. The Gopher protocol itself contains a built in search mechanism.
Here's how it works:-
gopher://hal3000.cx:2347/7
I've bolded the item type character, which is usually one of the following:
- 0 = plain text file
- 1 = directory listing
- 2 = CSO search query
- 3 = error message
- 4 = BinHex encoded text file
- 5 = binary archive file
- 6 = UUEncoded text file
- 7 = search engine query
- 8 = telnet session pointer
- 9 = binary file
- g = GIF image file
- h = html file
- i = informational message
- I = image file
- s = audio file
So, at least for me, in Firefox, when I visit the search engine, I get prompted for my query before I even see the site. This puts even Google's ubersimple homepage into a whole new light.
