[gopher] Re: A new convert to gopher!

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Weather has always been a big deal on Gopher.  The Gopher Client "BlueSkies" 
(for both Windows and Macintosh) was written specifically for the purpose 
of easily viewing full-color NOAA graphical weather charts in Gopher (and the 
Client can display Cameron's text-only weather reports as well).  
 
--- On Sun, 8/10/08, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [gopher] Re: A new convert to gopher!
To: gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 9:59 PM

> Sorry about going off-topic from the current discussion threads, but I
> just wanted to share a small anecdote about a recent gopher convert.
> 
> My wife is a typical computer user:  She can navigate a browser, but
> if you mentioned "gopher" to her she'd think of the animal,
not the
> protocol, and no amount of explaining would change the fact that
> gopher is, in fact, an animal.
> 
> I recently discovered Cameron's weather forecasts that he is carrying
on
> floodgap (gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/groundhog).  I know my wife
> is always watching the weather, so on a lark I sent her this link and
> asked her what she thought about it.  The conversation went something
> like this:

I'm flattered, and she should enjoy it more when I finish adding the NOAA
and NWS map browser.

I think this also demonstrates, though, that content is king -- she liked
it because it was useful and didn't make her jump through hoops. This is
why I'm trying to maintain news and weather sources on floodgap since
that's
what people gravitate to, and find most useful. More on that in a few weeks
when I finish some more modules for the automatic news systems.

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