A screenshot of two windows: (top) A web browser showing the default kiki install homepage which is formatted in HTML. All links are inline. (bottom) A gopherspace browser showing the default kiki install homepage, formatted in gopherspace format. It has a few lines of text, a horizontal line, and then 3 lines of footnoted links. Both read "You did it! kiki is up and running. This home page, is the default index page for any new installation. You can either edit this page to be your new landing page, or create a new page and set that one to be the default. If this is your first time using kiki, you'll probably want to read the help index page or go straight to the Getting Started Guide."

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   vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 08:49:34 JST vga256

   back when i first joined mastodon, one of the many surprising things i learned was that gopher had made a return to the public sphere after decades of obscurity.

   i grew up with gopher and archie and veronica and many other www-alt protocols before getting hooked on the world wide web. they taught me how to hunt for things, in a time when web search didn't exist yet.

   i've spent every day of the past week adding a new feature to kiki that i'm incredibly proud of, after hearing from several folks - namely @tomjennings and @scott, who (like me) are hungry for an information-dense and cruft-free internet

   this works by turning your kiki pages into gopherspace pages through some formatting magic and textmunging. so now, you can host your kiki instance on both the www and in gopherspace, simultaneously.

   it will be released in an upcoming version of kiki, available soon here: https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki

   #kiki #worldWideWeb #GopherProtocol #gopherspace #indieWeb #smolWeb