I think the draw of gopher is that one hundred percent of gopher servers work on old clients. Whereas with http you just don’t know. A website that works fine o

I think the draw of gopher is that one hundred percent of gopher servers work on old clients. Whereas with http you just don’t know. A website that works fine on an old browser can link to a website that doesn’t. That makes the whole thing feel broken. So the desire for gopher is the desire for something reliable, consistent, self-contained, and separate from the web.