A phlog, also called an rlog, is a type of daybook, similar to a

blog A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...

, that runs off a

Gopher protocol The Gopher protocol () is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to ...

server. These phlogs are typically hosted from home servers running some sort of

UNIX Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and ot ...

operating system, because a user account on the server is usually required to update the content. There are quite a few phlogs floating around gopherspace but the vast majority are not updated regularly. Phlogs usually arranged as a directory structure with the title or date of each entry, has a separate folder for archives. It is possible to have a few sentences under each link to a blog entry as a summary, or to host the phlog as one single text or HTML file; however, HTML files cannot be read by some pure gopher clients. Most phlogs are maintained by hand as a series of text files.

Open source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...

exists to convert posts from a

WordPress WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture ...

blog into plain text files that can be accessed using the gopher protocol. The word "phlog" is derived from "blog" but with the "ph" from "gopher" instead of the "b" from "web" and appears to have been coined by Jeff Woodall on April 22, 2003.

Gopherlog

A phlog can also be known as a gopherlog. The first known usage of the term "gopherlog" was by George Hotelling as an

April Fool's Day April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved in these pranks, which may ...

joke on April 1, 2005.

References

External links

Down the gopher hole
* opher://gopher.floodgap.com/ Floodgap Gopher-HTTP gateway* opher://sdf.org:70/1/ SDF Gopher(gopher link)
web proxy link
* opher://port70.net/1log Port70 Phlog(used to be Hactar.net) (gopher link)
SDF gopher club
Phlogs on the SDF Public Access UNIX System Blogs Gopher (protocol) Home servers {{internet-stub