Gopher

• Old [[protocol]] I never used, but apparently had a very interesting ecosystem distinct in personality from the web?
• It has a spiritual successor whose name I've forgotten and I'm now looking for :()
  • [[2021-01-30]] found it again: [[project gemini]].

Gopher is a simple, plaintext protocol for serving files.

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visit gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn

Why has Gopher lost mind-share? The Gopher whitepaper

Gopher is a net [[protocol]].

[[Gemini]] is much better than Gopher because of a saner links and not hardwrapped text. Basically, it is strictly better.

= Links => gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/gophervr | GopherVR

GopherVR was a 3-D environment for Gopherspace, allowing you to "walk around a server" and get a graphic view of its contents using a simple VR-type world. It was originally released for classic Macintosh systems and in an unfinished version for Motif-based X11.

=> gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta/

It's not often I phlog while drunk

=> gopher://mx.qw.is/0/write-code-on-a-phone.txt