Gopher¶

Gopher is a distributed, menu driven, text-based system for information retrieval on the Internet. It's a predecessor in many ways to the [much later] HTTP based Web as we know it today.

For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

Gopher clients¶

For modern OS / environment¶

• OverbiteWX Firefox Extension
• Burrow Gopherspace Explorer for Chrome
• https://github.com/kieselsteini/cgo (C language / console)
• https://github.com/prologic/gopherclient (Go language using Webview)
• https://github.com/aeonofdiscord/ferret (GTK based graphical client)

Historical clients¶

• original University of Minnesota gopher+ (builds on modern Linux)

Public gopher on the Internet¶

• Wikipedia gopher interface: gopher://gopherpedia.com/1
• List of gopher servers: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world

TBD

Gopher in Osmocom Retro-Networking¶

We don't have concrete plans as to offering gopher services.

It would be nice if somebody would develop a converter script that renders gopher versions of the CCC Event schedule (Fahrplan), see #4242