GopherVR

<h2 id="revival">Revival</h2>
<p>The software packages for GopherVR were stored on the UMN Boombox <a href="/facts/File_Transfer_Protocol/THuWgzfw">FTP</a> server, and (probably due to a defective backup and restore) virtually all Gopher software on this server over 96k in length had become corrupted, resulting in the loss of all publicly available copies of the <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> until it was rediscovered and made available by Mark McCahill in June 2008.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a>
</p><p>In December 2009, GopherVR was re-released by Cameron Kaiser in an updated form for <a href="/facts/Mac_OS_X/Y93vVpTm">Mac OS X</a>, <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> and other platforms,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> but is still considered incomplete.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/gophervr">Floodgap GopherVR project gopherspace</a> includes source code and Mac OS X binaries</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tomeri.org/GopherVR.html">Paper - A Preliminary Design for a 3-D Spatial User Interface for Internet Gopher</a></li>
<li><a href="http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-vrml.1995q1/0304.html">Paper - Announcing GopherVR</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.complete.org/gopher@complete.org/2008/06/msg00086.html.gz">Rediscovered source code</a></li>
<li><a href="http://launchpad.net/gophervr">GopherVR in Launchpad</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/gopher/Gopher_Conference_95/Papers/3DUnixServer">Paper - Customizing Unix Servers For 3D</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120304214243/http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher/TurboGopherVR/">TurboGopherVR Client for Mac at Sunet</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120304214251/http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gopher/Unix/GopherVR/">GopherVR Client for Irix at Sunet</a></li>
<li>Godot <a href="http://www.botik.ru/~znamensk/CTAN/tools/gopher/Unix/Godot/GODOT%20v0.1">http://www.botik.ru/~znamensk/CTAN/tools/gopher/Unix/Godot/GODOT%20v0.1</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Chen, Chaomei (2013). Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 187–189. ISBN 978-1-4471-3622-4. <a href="978-1-4471-3622-4" target="_blank">978-1-4471-3622-4</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>McCahill, Mark. "A Preliminary Design for a 3-D Spatial User Interface for Internet Gopher". Retrieved 2 June 2021. we can make the user experience similar to some of the better arcade style games (like Spectre) <a href="http://www.tomeri.org/GopherVR.html" target="_blank">http://www.tomeri.org/GopherVR.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Chen, Chaomei (2013). Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 187–189. ISBN 978-1-4471-3622-4. <a href="978-1-4471-3622-4" target="_blank">978-1-4471-3622-4</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Wolf, Peter (1996). Three-Dimensional Information Visualisation: The Harmony Information Landscape (Thesis). p. 40. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.44.9705. <a href="/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"Projects | Internet Scout". <a href="http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/NH/95-04/95-04-21/0014.html" target="_blank">http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/NH/95-04/95-04-21/0014.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Videos circa 1994-95 of GopherVR". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2005-12-29. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110514004122/https://www.myu.umn.edu/metadot/index.pl?iid=445087&isa=Category" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110514004122/https://www.myu.umn.edu/metadot/index.pl?iid=445087&isa=Category</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>McCahill, Mark P. (2001-09-13). "Oral History Interview with Mark P. McCahill". University Digital Conservancy at the University of Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute. hdl:11299/107471. Retrieved 2021-05-16. <a href="https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107471" target="_blank">https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107471</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Williams, Margot (August 7, 1995). "The Gopher Navigator Finds a Niche in the Web World Order". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-05-16. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1995/08/07/the-gopher-navigator-finds-a-niche-in-the-web-world-order/c0c7c0e4-0e64-4f57-ac8f-7bb295a893ba/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1995/08/07/the-gopher-navigator-finds-a-niche-in-the-web-world-order/c0c7c0e4-0e64-4f57-ac8f-7bb295a893ba/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:9"><p>McCarthy, Maurice (25 June 2008). "[gopher] gopherVR". lists.complete.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02. <a href="https://lists.complete.org/gopher@complete.org/2008/06/msg00086.html" target="_blank">https://lists.complete.org/gopher@complete.org/2008/06/msg00086.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:10"><p>Kaiser, Cameron (29 December 2009). "Re: [gopher] a picture is worth a thousand words". Archived from the original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2 June 2021. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160921091521/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general/2950" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160921091521/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general/2950</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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