> Do you remember Gopher? Oh my yes. I even recently (as something of a joke) created a Gopher gateway to a web service. I miss Gopher in a lot of ways. It wa

> Do you remember Gopher? Oh my yes. I even recently (as something of a joke) created a Gopher gateway to a web service. I miss Gopher in a lot of ways. It was my first real experience with the Internet (via the public library). The signal to noise ratio was good, and I think the result of making some very strong assumptions / opinions on what a document client-server should do, and how it should do it. I’d love to reimagine gopher for the 21st century—maybe with documents and document maps served up as S-expressions. But then I realize that making the document model more complex or flexible than it is could simply lead to a new webby mess. Gopher is kind of a museum piece right now. It’s a shame, because I feel like it has value in forcing you to think through a non-shitty information architecture. The web offers such a higher ceiling, but all too often a much lower floor as well.