It's been a long time since [1] I last mentioned The Electric King James Bible [2], an experiment I did back in late 1999 in URL (Uniform Resource Locator) addressing a portion of a document (which influenced the structure of my blog [3]). The code hasn't changed much since 1999 (there was a bug fix around 2010 it seems), and thus, it has sat there, chugging along with little attention to the greater world.
Until the past month when I've had email discussions with two different people about The Electric King James Bible [4]. Both people were interested in the addressing scheme, which I think is still unique on the Internet. How many sites will let you link directly to a portion of the Bible and get Noah's Ark [5] or Samson and Delilah [6]? It can also handle some pretty bad misspellings (levitakus 19:19 [7] anyone?). One of the respondents mentioned it would be nice if The Electric King James Bible [8] was available via Gopher [9].
Well, yeah, I do have a gopher site [10], so it wasn't all that difficult to present a similar interface [11] (in fact, it uses the same data files as the web version). So of course now you can get your Noah's Ark story [12] and Samson and Delilah story [13] from gopherspace. And any other Bible story you care to, just as long as you know where in the Bible it resides.
[2] http://literature.conman.org/bible/
[3] https://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html
[4] http://literature.conman.org/bible/
[5] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.6:9-9:17
[6] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Judges.16:4-21
[7] http://bible.conman.org/kj/levitakus.19:19
[8] http://literature.conman.org/bible/
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
[11] gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/1Bible:
[12] gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/0Bible:Genesis.6:9-9:17