I remember when I first got on the internet (AOL in the mid 90s) gopher (as well as WAIS) were still prominently featured in the menus, but it was as far as I could tell, already obsolete. I made a few attempts but never managed to find anything interesting in there. I always felt vaguely cheated by that. If I'd got on just a few years earlier when gopher was still cool... something, I donno.
But now, after all these years it almost sounds like gopher is cool again, after a fashion. Perhaps I will yet be able to fulfill my ambition to find something interesting through it some day.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
