Welcome, 1337 h4xx0rs, to the future. Or the future past. Or the past future. Grab your cyber decks. We're going on a trip.
Far below the bustling conference rooms of JawnCon lies the cyberpunk city of UnderJawn. This bustling micro-metropolis is home to an advanced civiliation of gophers. Among its gleaming micro-skyscrapers of chrome and neon, megacorps compete for control of the city's economic future. In the backrooms of the city's Internet cafes, freedom loving hackers carry out daring attacks in the name of digital liberty.
In order to stay under the radar of the megacorps' corporate security forces, the freedom-loving hackers of UnderJawn have adopted an older protocol that shares their name: gopher. Gopher is a protocol created in 1991 to share information among computers in a network. The gopher protocol is defined in RFC 1436. It uses a client/server architecture and communicates using TCP port 70. Gopher can be considered a precursor to the HTTP protocol that facilitated the development of the WWW that we know today. Gopher can be used to transmit many different types of information and media, but originally it was primarily used to share text-based information.
You can peek into the world of UnderJawn by logging into the gopher server used by its citizens. There you will find all kinds of tidbits about the goings-on in the city. To connect, you'll need a gopher client. You have several client options to pick from.
Linux CLI
Most Linux systems will have a gopher CLI client available. You can install it using your distribution's package management system. If you are using Ubuntu, you can install a gopher client by typing: sudo apt install gopher
To connect to the JawnCon gopher server using a Linux CLI client, use the following command: gopher jawncon0x1.0x1.jawncon.org
JawnCon Terminal
If you are using the JawnCon shell at terminal.0x1.jawncon.org you can access the JawnCon gopher server by typing: XXX
Gophie
Gophie is a cross-platform open-source gopher client available here. Installation instructions are provided on its GitHub page. Gophie can be installed on most operating systems. Note: the Gophie MacOS binary is not signed with a valid Apple developer certificate. Use your own judgment about risk before installing any software. Once installed, use Gophie to connect to: jawncon0x1.0x1.jawncon.org