This is a collection of mirrors maintained by gopher.quux.org.  These mirrors were
taken offline in 2006 due to bandwidth constraints.

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mirrors.tar.bz2
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Compressed size: 1.6GB
Uncompressed size: 3.8GB
File count: 102736

The content includes:

  boombox.micro.umn.edu
    /pub/gopher from the FTP site, including various historic Gopher
    software packages for many operating systems

    [ site no longer exists ]

  etext.org
    /pub from the etext.org FTP site, an early electronic book/magazine
    collection.

    [ site no longer exists but is in archive.org as a web site ]

  fidonews collection, 1984-2002
    Collection of FidoNet newsletters

  ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/oracle
    The Usernet/Internet Oracle archive, snapshot taken in 2002

    [ site still up; mirror taken in 2002 ]

  ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/sim
    PDP-1, -7, -8, and -11 simulators collection

    [ site no longer exists ]

  ftp.eff.org/Misc/EFF/Newsletters/EFFector
    EFF newsletter collection

  ftp.std.com/pub/mbg
    Files relating to PDP-10 and PDP-11

    [ site is down ]

  ftp.ucpel.tche.br/pub/msdos/emulator/coco
    TRS-80 CoCo II emulator and collection of CoCo II software

    [ site no longer exists ]

  ftp.unicom.com/pub/gn-tools
    The old GN gopher server.  Last updated 1995.

    [ site no longer exists ]

  gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet
    Files pertaining to the Usenet newsgroups
    comp.sources.games, comp.sources.misc, comp.sources.reviewed,
    comp.sources.sun, comp.sources.unix
   
    [ site is up but this data is gone ]

  if-archive: ftp.irarchive.org
    Interactive Fiction archive snapshot

    [ site is up ]

  OBI: the Online Books Initiative
    Another early etext site.  From ftp.std.com.

    [ site is up, but as a Web site only now ]

  risks: the risk of technology digest

  textfiles.com
    Mirror of that site.  Site is still up.

  wiretap.area.com
    An old Gopher site.  The Gopher metadata is included in the mirror.

    Various etexts, especially related to government.

    A Web site now exists at that location, but Gopher is down.

  wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/c/unix-c
    Some old Unix-based utilities and programs.

    [ site is down ]

  www.espy.org
    Joel Klecker's website.  Joel Klecker was a Debian developer that
    died in 2000 at the age of 21.

    [ site is down ]

  x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos
    Includes DOS programs for various outdates compression formats

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usenet-a-news.tar.bz2
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Compressed size: 4MB
Uncompressed size: 51MB
File count: 9987

Usenet articles from around 1981, before the Great Renaming.