thank you for your community minded work in coming to visit the olds and letting us tell stories
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
I am actually running a gopher server (though it also does HTTP/HTML translation for benefit of, well, tbh most people nowadays after Mozilla axed the old Firefox extension systems) right now for a small IRC community. there are also a couple different services you can access over gopher, though mostly they're just gateways or mirrors of web services
