# Gopher: a present for Redis - <antirez>

<http://antirez.com/news/127>

- Host: [antirez.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/antirez.com/)
- Saved: February 27, 2019 (2019-02-28T01:45:08Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

I totally thought this was an April fools joke, and then… 

> I’ll use the ten years of Redis as an excuse to release something I played a bit in the previous days, thinking to use it for the 1st April fool: but such date is far and I want to talk to you about this project now… So, happy birthday Redis! Here it’s your present: a Gopher protocol implementation.

I 💚 Redis and it’s fun to see this. Made me think I would like to make a Gopher version of my website. 😍

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT95: Weekly Thing #95 / Mar 2, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/95/), Notable Links 📌

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