someone made a joke about "making web pages in assembly" and now i find myself explaining what Gopher was to more than one person

if you were born after the berlin wall fell, well, gopher was a service a bit like ftp and a bit like using a web browser. you could list directories, you could search, and you could download text files and binary files. it predates the world wide web

thanks for visiting the rest home would you like a boiled sugar sweet

tef i solemnly regret to inform you that i think "ftp" almost brings us to the rest home, based on some of the reactions i get when i mention it :(