[gopher] Re: Gopher movie

[Rich Roberts <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Dec 2005, at 21:01, Rich Roberts wrote:

> Good catch!
> Especially the gopherspace VR demo towards the end. (1995 all over
> again!)
>
> As an aside, port.ac.uk's gopher backups appear to have been lost in
> the midst of time, but I'll keep my eyes peeled...
>
> On 29 Dec 2005, at 19:29, Jeff wrote:
>
>> Benn Newman wrote:
>>> In the /pub/movie directory on boombox.micro.umn.edu's FTP server,
>>> there is an QuickTime movie of two people talking about Gopher.
>>> Unfortunately, it is only about a fourth of the size QuickTime
>>> says it should be.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know anything about this? And more importantly,
>>> does anyone have a complete copy?
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>> I searched on "boombox.micro.umn.edu" +mirror and found a complete
>> copy:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/movie/
>> mpm_gopher.mov
>>
>> Basically a mirror that hasn't been updated in a while - lucky us! :)
>>
>> I haven't watched it right through yet but skipped through it to
>> verify
>> that it was indeed whole.  The credits at the end list the talking
>> heads:
>>
>> talking head #1: Mark McCahill - mpm@xxxxxxx
>> talking head #2: Farhad Anklesaria - fxa@xxxxxxx
>> cameraman: Kevin Henninger
>>
>> file specs:
>> name: mpm_gopher.mov
>> size: 403 MB (423,141,376 bytes)
>>
>> I'll be putting a copy on my freeshell space for future access.
>>
>> Very cool find!
>>
>> Jeff Woodall
>> Portland, OR
>> --
>> Simple Machines: gopher://beaker.mdns.org
>>
>>
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