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*1436chan imageboard: gopher://khzae.net/1/chan | *1436chan imageboard: gopher://khzae.net/1/chan | ||
*70chan imageboard: gopher://bbs.sick.bike/1/70chan | *70chan imageboard: gopher://bbs.sick.bike/1/70chan | ||
*This gopher hole is run by James Tomasino. If you read something interesting and would like to follow up with | |||
me, send me an email or find me on a social network: gopher://gopher.black | |||
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*<span class="plainlinks">[https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.floodgap.com%2F1%2Fbuck Welcome to Bucktooth, the miniature Gopher server for Perl.]</span> | |||
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Revision as of 00:53, 17 April 2025
The Gopher protocol, launched in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, was an early internet system for organizing and retrieving text-based documents. Named after the university’s mascot, it aimed to provide a simple, hierarchical menu-driven alternative to the chaotic early web.
By the mid 1990s, there were thousands of gopher servers online. They were quick and free, so universities and libraries used them like crazy. Then, Mosaic happened and gopher disappeared...mostly.
This article is mainly for my own use. I will add gopher:// sites as I find them. I am using Overbite for Android to view and interact with these old web pages. Once you have Overbite installed, it should take over as your default app for the protocol. Yes, the protocol is slow, but get over it.
gopher sites
- Floodgap Systems: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/
- Gopherpedia: gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/
- Project Gutenberg: gopher://dante.pglaf.org:70/
- SDF Public Access UNIX System: gopher://sdf.org:70/
- Mozz’s Cocktails: gopher://mozz.us:7003/
- Telefisk: gopher://telefisk.org:70/
- Raspberry Pi of Death: gopher://gopher.leveck.us:70/
- 1436chan imageboard: gopher://khzae.net/1/chan
- 70chan imageboard: gopher://bbs.sick.bike/1/70chan
- This gopher hole is run by James Tomasino. If you read something interesting and would like to follow up with
me, send me an email or find me on a social network: gopher://gopher.black
see also