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If you don’t mind me asking what kind of content do you consume on gopher? I had no idea it was still in regular use :)

• dotcomboom 7y ago
  As a general rule, if it's a file you can serve it over Gopher. And Gopher's query selector type (`?`) can be used for searching and simple applications. As an example Floodgap has weather information, feeds, xkcd strips, a Figlet gateway and Gopher link shortener, file archives for classic Macintosh software in particular, among others. And that's just Floodgap's server, elsewhere there are independent phlogs (blogs over Gopher), text adventure games (mozz.us), music, more files.. It may seem obsolete but there's a passionate community behind it. It just looks like that since it doesn't have wide-spread encryption and most clients have tried to treat gopher menus just as basic web pages. Although you can do that, it really limits what clients can do; I could drag mp3 files out of a Gopher menu onto my desktop with Cyberdog, and no client quite like that has come for modern systems (yet), nor can you do that with a webpage. I believe Gopher should be thought of as an improved anonymous FTP rather than a stripped down Web.
  • codezero 7y ago
    Thanks a bunch for the detail, I'm pretty familiar with Gopher as a thing, just didn't realize it still had a sort of vintage hobbyist following and that brings me great joy to hear :)