Gopher Internet

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 Sep 00): Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed at the University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a sports team). Others claim the word derives from American slang `gofer' (from "go for", dialectal "go fer"), one whose job is to run and fetch things. Finally, observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling through the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the developers. Probably all three things were true, but with the first two coming first and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor and impetus to the project as it developed out of its concept stage.

• Matjaz's Gopher Client - Offers an open source client for Windows, includes screen shots and a list of interesting links.
  
• Hactar.net - Hosts mgod, an open source, Gopher+ capable server for inetd.
  
• Port70.net - Offers mgod, an open source Gopher server written in C, with no dependencies.
  
• The World - Public gopher server. Features OBI, the Online Book Initiative.
  
• Veronica FAQ - Common questions and answers about Veronica, a title search and retrieval system for use with the Internet gopher.
  
• GoFish - An open source, simple, fast, low resource usage gopher server. Can also function as a web server and a gopher-to-HTTP gateway.
  
• Spencer Hunter's Homepage - Example of a Gopher emulation in HTML, online since 1995. Under the "About this gopher and myself" directory is the author's own Gopher manifesto, "Why gopher is superior to the Web."
  
• Vertrauen BBS - Gopher support demo for Synchronet, an open source BBS server. This Gopher service allows mainly a read-only access to some USENET newsgroups and other discussion boards.
  
• Kostecke - Hosts GN, an open source multi-protocol server for Gopher and the World-Wide Web. A GopherMail system able to retrieve Gopher pages via e-mail is also available.
  
• Wikipedia: Gopher (protocol) - Origins, decline, current status and technical details of the Gopher protocol.
  
• Jugtail - An open source search engine system for the Gopher protocol. Jugtail, formerly known as Jughead, searches one server at a time whereas Veronica doesn't have this limitation.
  
• Gopher Manifesto - The Bring Back Gopher Campaign.
  
• Quasi-Indefatigable Xenolith - One of the most active Gopher servers on the Internet by a Gopher enthusiast. Many strange topics.
  
• Kio_gopher - Adds Gopher support to the Konqueror web browser which is a core component of the K Desktop Environment, also known as KDE.
  
• Sean's Gopherspace - Random collection of mainly humorous stuff.
  
• Whois Search - Directory provided by the sipb.mit.edu Gopher server for querying whois servers throughout the Internet. Due to a port limitation, it doesn't work with Firefox, another browser such as Lynx must be used instead.
  
• Super Dimension Fortress - Personal GOPHERSPACE is available to all users as well as hundreds of UNIX utilities, games and networking utilities.
  
• R-36 - Personal site of Christoph Lohmann hosting his software projects, and amongst these, Geomyidae, an open source Gopher server.
  
• PyGS - Open source Gopher server written in Python. No longer being developed.
  
• Aftershock - Open source Gopher server developed in Java.
  
• Floodgap Gopher Proxy - Public gopher-to-HTTP proxy to allow the use of web browsers to explore gopherspace.
  
• TidBITS: Down the Gopher Hole - A brief presentation of the protocol, both its history and its current status, by an experienced Gopher system administrator.
  
• QUUX - John Goerzen's Gopher server (quux.org). Hosts important documents including information on the main mailing-list about Gopher.
  
• Hal 3000 - Gopher server (pygopherd) serving in gopher, http and wap. Content updated hourly for weather and news as well as various other files. Jughead, Veronica and Jugtail search interfaces.
  
• RFC 1436 - The Internet Gopher Protocol (a Distributed Document Search and Retrieval Protocol). F. Anklesaria, M. McCahill, P. Lindner, D. Johnson, D. Torrey, B. Albert. March 1993.
  
• Moo Canada - Gopher server written for Lambda Moos.
  
• Debian GNU/Linux: gopherd - Information and downloads for the Debian package of the UMN gopher server.
  
• PyGopherd - An open source multi-protocol gopher server written in Python. Also works as an HTTP and WAP server.
  
• Elrond's Gopher Node - Hosts a local search engine. Also offers gopher homepages.
  
  

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