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[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected Gopher servers to
be one large distributed entity; thus, we speak of "the Gopher", with
its many small parts, spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is
always growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't locate
it; it's always there, but you can't see it. ... The Gopher is the
largest and most practical example of applied pantheism in the history
of mankind.
-- Hahn; Stout. The Internet Complete Reference (1994)
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Software |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
DIR Gopher clients
Applications for various operating systems.
DIR Gopher proxy with Opera
Configuring Opera 12 to use a Gopher proxy.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Videos |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
RESERV mpm_gopher.mp4 (70 MiB)
A rare interview with some of the founders of Gopher: Mark McCahill
and Farhad Anklesaria, also includes some early screenshots.
RESERV Gopher_World_Tour_T-Shirt_on MTV.mpg (772 KiB)
A 7 second video of Adam Curry fulfilling the terms of his commercial
use of Internet Gopher server software license from the University of
Minnesota.
RESERV Internet_Show_12_-_Gopher.mp4 (21.8 MiB)
"Since Gopher is a very popular service, gopherspace is a huge and
expanding part of the Internet."
RESERV gopher.avi (241 KiB)
Surfing the Gopherspace with WS Gopher 1.2 on Windows.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Images |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 1
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 2
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 3
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 4
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 5
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 6
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 7
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 8
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 9
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 10
IMG Gopher Mascot GIF 11
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Articles |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
The following Gopher documents are mostly taken from:
HTML Offbeat Internet
--- Vogue Growth Era --------------------------------------------------
TEXT Usenet_Gopher_Announcement.txt
TEXT On_the_Trail_of_the_Internet_Gopher.txt
TEXT Gopher_spiel.txt
TEXT The_Internet_Gopher.txt
TEXT Lets_Gopher_it.txt
TEXT IUBio_Gopher_hole.txt
TEXT CCSO_through_Gopher.txt
TEXT Summer_Go-pher-it_Workshops.txt
Tailoring_Gopher_Services_for_Individual_Users.pdf
APS_Server_Anniversary.pdf
A_Rolling_Gopher_Gathers_No_Moss.pdf
Gopher_from_MOO.pdf
Services_Available_on_The_Internet.rtf
Using_Gopher_on_the_Internet.pdf
TEXT A_Preliminary_Design_for_a_3-D_Spatial_User_Interface_for_Internet_Gopher.txt
TEXT Announcing_GopherVR.txt
TEXT GopherVR_now_available.txt
TEXT Announcing_TurboGopher.txt
Evolution_of_Internet_Gopher.pdf
TEXT Internet_Diving.txt
TEXT Gopher_Jewels_Design_Change.txt
TEXT WWW_vs_Gopher.txt
--- Mass Defection Era ------------------------------------------------
Gopher_and_Veronica.pdf
TEXT Who_Killed_Gopher.txt
TEXT Gopher_Jewels_Closing.txt
TEXT SEC_Gopher_discontinued.txt
TEXT Mother_Gopher_Obituary.txt
TEXT TCP-IP_Guide.txt
TEXT Where_Have_all_the_Gophers_Gone.txt
TEXT Interview_with_Paul_Lindner.txt
TEXT Bob_Alberti.txt
TEXT About_Gopher.txt
TEXT Gopher_Manifesto.txt
TEXT Gopher_Underground.txt
TEXT Gopher_still_going.txt
Down_the_Gopher_Hole.rtf
TEXT The_death_of_WELLgopher.txt
TEXT JumpJet_Gopher_terminated.txt
TEXT How_Gopher_nearly_trumped_the_web.txt
TEXT Bandwidth_and_Gopher.txt
--- Stagnancy Era -------------------------------------------------
Gopher_tunnels_on.pdf
TEXT OmniWeb_now_includes_Gopher_support.txt
TEXT Fun_Sites_from_the_Early_Internet.txt
TEXT Long_Live_Gopher.txt
TEXT Why_is_Gopher_Still_Relevant.txt
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GopherCon |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
Documents of various Gopher Conventions from the 1990s.
--- GopherCon '92 -----------------------------------------------------
TEXT GopherCon_'92_Trip_Report.txt
--- GopherCon '93 -----------------------------------------------------
TEXT GopherCon_'93_Trip_Report.txt
TEXT GopherCon_Mar93_Minutes.txt
--- GopherCon '94 -----------------------------------------------------
TEXT Directions_to_Radisson.txt
TEXT GopherCon94_Registration_Info.txt
TEXT Attendee_List_through_Friday_April_15.txt
TEXT Agenda_at_a_Glance_FINAL.txt
TEXT Agenda_in_detail_FINAL.txt
Presentations:
TEXT GEN1 = 1994_State_of_the_Gopher.txt
TEXT EQ1 = Information_Quality.txt
TEXT COL1 = K-12_Learning_Resource.txt
TEXT APP7 = WSGopher_a_Windows_Gopher+_client.txt
TEXT APP12 = Running_WWW_on_top_of_Gopher.txt
DOS APP14 = Growing_the_MIT_Libraries_Gopher.zip
Papers:
TEXT Go4zgate.txt
TEXT GopherSQL.txt
TEXT SQLEvents.txt
TEXT SafeGopher.txt
TEXT 3Dgopherspace.txt
--- GopherCon '95 -----------------------------------------------------
TEXT Directions_to_Radisson.txt
TEXT GopherCon95_Announcement.txt
TEXT Agenda.txt
Papers:
TEXT Go4zgate.txt
TEXT ScreenScrape.txt
TEXT WebbedGopher.txt
TEXT Hyper-G.txt
TEXT Cluster.txt
TEXT 3DUnixServer.txt
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| RFCs |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
Standards referencing Gopher:
TEXT rfc1436.txt - The Internet Gopher Protocol
TEXT rfc1580.txt - Guide to Network Resource Tools
TEXT rfc1594.txt - Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions
TEXT rfc1614.txt - Network Access to Multimedia Information
TEXT rfc1689.txt - Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups
TEXT rfc1727.txt - A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service
TEXT rfc1738.txt - Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
TEXT rfc1808.txt - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
TEXT rfc2219.txt - Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services
TEXT rfc2396.txt - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
TEXT rfc4266.txt - The Gopher URI Scheme
Enhancement proposals:
TEXT Gopher+
TEXT +MENU block suggestion
TEXT Changes to RFC1738 and RFC1808
TEXT Proposed Item-type Changes
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Licencing Fiasco of 1993 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
The following Gopher documents are mostly taken from:
HTML Offbeat Internet
TEXT Gopher-Software-Licencing-Policy_ANCIENT.txt
This policy hung a dark cloud over GopherCon '93.
TEXT Gopher-Software-Licencing-Policy_NEW.txt
The lifting of prohibition had little impact, occuring seven years
too late.
TEXT Peers Condemning the Ancient Gopher Licence
TEXT UMN Justifying their Ancient Gopher Licence
TEXT Retrospection on the disasterous impact of licencing Gopher