Twenty-five years ago, a small band of programmers from the University of Minnesota ruled the internet. And then they didn’t.

In most cases, you can just serve files directly on your Gopher menus with no additional setup. If you do need to customize your menus, here's how to do it.

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gopher library & server written in Haskell. Contribute to sternenseemann/spacecookie development by creating an account on GitHub.

A brief explanation of how the Gopher protocol works.

Gophie is the Open Source Gopher browser for Windows, macOS, Linux and many more operating systems with Java support.

The 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web passed earlier this year. Naturally, this milestone was met with truckloads of nerdy fanfare and pining for those simpler times. In three decades, the Web…

More than a decade ago, gopher took the Net by storm. The Web stole its thunder soon after, but enthusiasts are still keeping it alive -- and bringing it into the future. By Lore Sjöberg.

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I’m quite interested in concepts of the “Small Web” and adjacent topics, but it is definitely true that “small web” itself is a vague term that different people use to talk about different kinds of projects. What unites all these different concepts …

The danger and irritations of the modern web have unleashed a movement dedicated to creating a safer and simpler alternative. The old Gopher networ...

[Editor's Note: Some of the URLs in this article use the gopher:// scheme rather than the familiar http:// scheme. These gopher URLs can be viewed directly in Camino or Firefox, but if you are using Safari, which does not support the Gopher protocol, view these pages using the HTTPgopher proxy