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

blog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

, that runs off a

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

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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.

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exists to convert posts from a

WordPress WordPress (WP, or WordPress.org) is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites, electronic mailing list, ma ...

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

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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