I remember Gopher and another one called WAIS. Then one day, somebody told me on irc I needed to download 'Mosaic', and I remember thinking how superior Gopher was at the time and thought this 'www thing' would never catch on because there was so much information on Gopher and WAIS.
I found out about Mosaic from Usenet (alt.hypertext I think) - I remember thinking it sounded interesting but also wondering why you'd want to load hypertext documents over a network. :-)
Oh man, I don't think I have much/any use for this today, but my first internet experience was on Gopher. They had it set up on what I'm assuming were some kind of *nix machines at the local library. I would search for comic book related material and generally "surf" around when my mother would drive me down there. Fortunately the Internet went public in '97, my jr high school had several networked computers, eventually all on the Internet blah blah netscape.
The last big thread on Gopher here was pretty entertaining, nostalgic, and informative [2] -- including posts by the creators -- and it's the one where OP posted that they're working on a new windows client [1].
I don't hide who I am, a bit of googling will net you my address and phone number. So I think it's fair to say, that if I was going to release malware, I'd hardly host it on my own site would I?
I'm not a fan of Open Sourcing my own code, due to bad experiences in the past, sorry.
> if I was going to release malware, I'd hardly host it on my own site would I?
That argument has never held water for me... I'm not saying you are malicious, not at all. But if someone did want to release malware, it isn't impossible to create a fake persona, put up fake contact info, or impersonate someone. Or even hack someone else's site to put up a corrupted download. Admittedly, this one smells pretty safe... but it is even safer to just set a rule for oneself not to download executables off the web.
I respect your right to code and deliver it how you see fit. I just also respect other people's decisions to not download it for security concerns.
Actually, they can provide that (somewhat publicly responsible) UX by extension without tracking at all. It doesn't sound very "googly" to do so, but who knows, maybe they do... ;)
This. I've gotten it when redownloading old PS2 homebrew stuff that I'd used in the past and knew was safe, and that's about it. They were mostly zip and exe files.
Absolutely not. That's a false positive caused by the SetHandler.exe that's included in the zip.
SetHandler is used if you want to register GopherBrowser as the handler for gopher:// links - it adds some values and keys to the Classes_Root registry hive, which is probably why it's being flagged as a false positive by only 1 out of 61 AntiVirus products.
Rescan just GopherBrowser.exe and it will be clean.
If SetHandler.exe worries you, just delete it.
Instead of just posting 'hmm' and trying to discredit my work, how about you actually ask why it flagged, or better yet do proper analysis on the files and comment accordingly.
I run a clean ship, there is no way I'd release virus-laden software with or without my name on it.
