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Gopher

Gopher is an hypertext protocol, similar to HTTP but far more simpler and KISS.

Pages using the Gopher protocol are known as "Gopherholes". As of writing this, there are about 200~300 active gopherholes.

Protocol

TODO

printf '\n' | nc 'khzae.net' 70

Accesing

"Modern" web browsers are so advanced that can't bother implementing such a trivial protocol, so if you're using a web browser you can use a proxy like https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ that works over HTTP. But for the true experience, you want a text based browser with native support for Gopher such as Lynx or Bitreich's sacc browser.

Notable Gopherholes

• Bitreich
• Veronica-2: a search engine for the gopherspace, indexing is limited to titles, however.
• gopher://khzae.net